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LIEUT. EDWIN H. RENNOLDS. 



A HISTORY 



OF THE 



rienry dounty (commands 



WHICH SERVED IN THE 



Confederate States Army^ 



INCLUDING ROSTERS OF THE VARIOUS COMPANIES 
ENLISTED IN HENRY COUNTY, TENN. 



WITH PORTRAITS, 



BY 

LIEUT. EDWIN H, RENNOLDS, 

Company ^*K/* Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 



Jacksonville, Florida : 

SUN PUBLISHING COMPANY, 

J904. 



LIBRARY f>l 0ON6RESS 
TWoCoom Rw et vwl 

AUG 11 1904 

V GowrffM Entry 



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ILAS8 a.xXe.Na 
COPY B 



Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1904, by 

EDWIN H. RENNOLDS, 

In the office of the Librarian at Washington. 



Dedication. 



To my Comrades, 
who left the peace- 
ful homes and quiet 
firesides of Henry Coun- 
ty, Tenn., during the Civil 
War, 18-61 to 1865, and for 
four years brayed the dangers 
of the battlefield, endured the pri- 
vations of the march and bivouac, 
living on scant rations, and often rag- 
ged and barefooted, yet uncomplaining, 
and won for their native County the title 
of the Volunteer County of the "Volun- 
teer State," many of whom fell under 
their colors or died in hospitals, 
many others of whom have since 
been summoned hence by the 
last tattoo, and some of whom 
are yet spared to read this 
unworthy tribute, is this 
small testimony affec- 
tionately dedicated 
and inscribed by 



The Author. 



Furl that banner, furl it sadly, 
Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, 
And ten thousands wildly, madly, 
Swore it should forever wave." 

— Ryan. 



INTRODUCTION. 

Ever since tlie close of the Civil War I have de- 
sired to see a record of the brave deeds of Henry 
County's gallant soldiery put into a durable and per- 
manent form; in a history worthy of the men, the 
cause and the story, and have fondly hoped that some 
pen more gifted than mine would have undertaken 
the task. But nearly forty years have passed away 
and no historian has appeared. Now, I have for the 
first time in these four decades found time and oppor- 
tunity to undertake it myself. I have, however, not 
ceased all these years to collect and preserve materials 
for its composition. No known or accessible source 
has been left unsearched to secure the facts necessary 
to make it both complete and accurate. Errors and 
omissions it certainly has, but the "errors are of the 
head and not of the heart," and the omissions are 
"such as are unavoidable. 

So many of my comrades have aided me in this 
work cheerfully and readily that to enumerate them 
would be impracticable, and to try to discriminate 
between those who have done much and those who 



^ Introductiox. 

have done less would tax my judgment and discretion 
without profit to them. To any and all who have 
thus aided in the work, I tender my heartfelt thanks. 
Diaries, manuscript notes, private muster-rolls and 
the memories of many comrades have been freely con- 
sulted and compared, and, as far as possible, harmon- 
ized, and I am confident that the history is as nearly 
accurate as it can be made at this late day. I invoke 
the forbearance of all its readers with whatever of 
defects and inaccuracies it contains, and send it out 
with the hope that it will, in the years to come, give 
my comrades pleasure in reading of the days long 
gone by, and enable their children and grandchildren 
to point with pride to the names of their ancestors 
on this roll of honor. 

"Little avails it now to know 
Of ages passed so long ago, 

Nor how they rolled ; 
Our tlieme shall be of yesterday. 
Which to oblivion sweeps away, 
Like days of old." 

E. H. REi^^NOLDS. 
Jacksonville, Fla., June, 1904. 



HISTORY 



OF 



COMPANY ^^F," 

One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Senior Regiment, 
Tennessee Infantry* 



A year or so before the opening of the Civil War 
the Paris Bliles, a small volunteer infantry company, 
was organized at Paris, Tenn., which kept up its 
existence till the outbreak of hostilities, when it was 
made the nucleus of a company for immediate service, 
and when filled up to the proper standard was ten- 
dered to Governor Isham G. Harris, accepted and 
ordered to Randolph, on the Mississippi River, and 
entered into the organization of what was called the 
First Tennessee Infantry. Most of the companies 
were enlisted in Memphis, and it proved to be one of 
the best regiments in the Confederate service. The 
Henry County Company was composed of some of 
the noblest and most patriotic young men of the 
county, and as it was the first to rush to arms at the 
bugle call of war, it deserves to be placed first on the 

list. 

The officers of the regiment were Preston Smith, 



8 History of Henry County Commands 

colonel; Marcus J. Wright, lieutenant-colonel, and 
Jones Genet, major. 

The months of May, June and July, 1861, were 
spent in building fortifications and drilling and learn- 
ing the theoretical part of warfare. 

The State of Tennessee, having cast its fortunes 
with the Confederate States, the State troops were all 
mustered into the service of the new republic. As 
several Tennessee regiments had been formed from 
the individual companies which had rendezvoused at 
Richmond, Va., and entered the Confederate service 
direct before the secession of Tennessee, and one of 
these had been numbered the First, it became neces- 
sary, to prevent confusion, to renumber Preston 
Smith's First, and, at the request of the field officers, 
they were allowed to select the number of the old 
Memphis militia regiment (One Hundred and Fiftv- 
Fourth) and to add the word ^'Senior'' in order to 
show that tliey were enlisted early in the war. The 
One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth was composed of 
some of the finest fighting material in the State, was 
thoroughly perfected in drill, and made its mark 
wherever it served. 

About the first of August a column was organized 
to advance into Southeast Missouri, by the way of 
New Madrid, and the One Hundred and Fifty- 
Fourth Regiment was selected as part of it. This 
first march during the extremely hot weather tried 
very severely the strength and endurance of these 
troops, but they proved equal to the task, and showed 
the metal of which they were made. 

The campaign accomplished nothing, and the troops 



In Confederate States Army. 9 

were recalled and advanced to Columbus, Ky., and 
occupied and fortified it. While camped here, Captain 
Ed Fitzgerald was promoted to major, and the subal- 
terns advanced one round each on the military ladder, 
Calvin Kay being made third lieutenant. 

During the battle of Belmont, November 7th, 1861, 
the Federals, having driven the small force of Con- 
federates camped on the Missouri side of the river 
back to the river bank, several regiments were trans- 
ported across the river on steamboats as reinforce- 
ments, the One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth among 
the number. Landing above the contending forces, 
they threatened to cut the Federals off from their 
transports and gunboats. This movement compelled 
them to retreat hastily, and they were followed by 
the Confederates, who poured into them a heavy fire, 
driving them back to their transports. Halting a 
moment, Lieutenant-Colonel M. J. Wright rode up to 
Company ^'F" and ordered Captain Fitzgerald to de- 
tach eighteen men from the right of his company, 
deploy them as skirmishers, and pick up straggling 
Federals, which, he said, the woods were full of. D. 
D. Brisendine and Wash Janes captured fourteen 
prisoners, thirteen of them in an old house which they 
had seen them enter and where they were found hiding 
in the loft. T. J. Jones, in crossing a fence, lost his 
balance and fell, discharging, his gun accidentally, 
and thus scaring up a Federal secreted in the bushes, 
whoin he ordered to surrender, and, disarming him, 
too'c him prisoner. The pursuit was kept up till the 
boats were reached, and the Federals re-embarked. 
The gunboats, after steaming some distance up the 



10 History of Henry County Commands 

river, opened fire upon the pursuing Confederates 
with little effect. 

After the evacuation of Columbus, the regiment 
retired, first to New Madrid, then to Randolph and 
finally to Bethel Station, a few miles north of Corinth, 
Miss. When General Johnston began concentrating 
his forces in front of the enemy near Shiloh Church, 
Cheatham's Division, to which the One Hundred and 
Fifty-Fourth belonged, marched to that point. 

At the opening of the battle of Shiloh this division 
was formed to support Clark's Division, of Polk's 
Corps, and was ordered forward early in the engage- 
ment, and was soon under a galling fire of both artil- 
lery and infantry, and without waiting for support on 
either flank. Colonel Preston Smith ordered an ad- 
vance. The charge was so rapid and impetuous that 
a battery of four guns was captured entire, and the 
infantry driven back, the pursuit continuing for GOO 
or 700 yards, and a section of another battery was 
also taken. 

The fire from front and flanks becoming severe, the 
reaiment was retired about 200 vards and reformed, 
and moved to the right and again ad ranced, engaging 
the enemy in a desperate and severe struggle. During 
this conflict Major Fitzgerald, with the two left com- 
panies, removed the wounded, who were very numer- 
ous where they liad charged the batteries, after which 
they rejoined the regiment, though many of the men 
were prevented from doing so, but did most effective 
service in taking prisoners and guarding them to the 
rear. 

The ammunition becoming exhausted, the regiment 



In Confederate States Army. 11 

retired a short distance and replenished their car- 
tridge boxes from wagons, and then supported 
Swett's battery, and soon moved forward and drove 
the enemy from his last encampment and forced him 
to take refuge under the river bluffs and protection 
of his gunboats. Soon afterwards the regiment was 
ordered by General Polk to retire for the night and 
bivouac. 

At daylight on the morning of* the Tth, the regiment 
was moved to the right to repel a rumored attempt of 
the enemy to get into the rear of the Confederates. 
This proving a false report, it was moved up to the 
front and formed in a field in rear of Bankhead's bat- 
tery, but soon after ordered by Captain Henry of 
General Cheatham's staff to oblique to the right, 
which was done, and the enemy attacked, where they 
encountered a heavy fire from artillery and infantry, 
which continued for almost an hour, when the ammu- 
nition was exhausted, and it was retired and informed 
by a staff officer that a general retreat had begun. 

Company "F" lost eight men killed at Shiloh and 
a proportionate number wounded, and this evidences 
the desperate nature of the fighting they were engaged 
in. During the months of April and May, 1862, the 
regiment took part in the defense of Corinth and bore 
their full share in the work on the fortifications and 
in the daily skirmishing. 

Upon the passage of the conscript law and the reor- 
ganization of the different commands, Major Edward 
Fitzgerald was elected colonel of the One Hundred 
and Fifty-Fourth Senior Kegiment, and Charles D. 
Cooney, captain of Company ^^F." 



12 History of Henry County Commands 

After the retreat to Tupelo, Miss., the One Hundred 
and Fifty-Fourth was selected as part of the column 
to enter Eastern Kentucky, under General E. Kirby 
Smith, and maintained its well-earned reputation for 
efficiency during that arduous campaign, driving the 
Federals back almost to the gates of Cincinnati. At 
the battle of Kichmond, Ky., Colonel Fitzgerald, while 
gallantly leading his regiment, fell mortally wounded 
almost at the beginning of the engagement. At the 
consolidation of the regiments at Murfreesboro, the 
Thirteenth and One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth were 
placed together. Company ^^F" being united with the 
Somerville company. 

At the battle of Murfreesboro the regiment repulsed 
an attempt to capture Kobertson's battery, and, Gen- 
eral Cheatham says, '^suffered heavily, but fought 
nobly." It fought gallantly at Chickamauga and Mis- 
sion Kidge, and throughout all the hundred days of 
the Georgia campaign, at Kesaca, Xew Hope, Kenne- 
saw, Peachtree Creek, Atlanta and Jonesboro, bore its 
full share, suffering severely in several of them. 

During General Hood's raid along the Western & 
Atlantic Railroad, it participated in tearing up and 
destroying Sherman's communications, and marched 
into Tennessee and charged the fortifications at 
Franklin. They were in the first line in the charge 
there, carried the first line of works, sweeping over 
them like a whirlwind, and driving the Federals from 
a small part of the main line or works. Nick Roach, 
color-bearer of the regiment, accompanied by H. P. 
Gaines, T. J. Jones, George Elliott, Jeff Green and 
three others, crossed the works and went as far as 



In Confederate States Army. 13 

the Carter house, but were compelled to recross for 
the want of support, but still kept up a contmual 
fire from behiud the embankmeut. All the commis- 
sioned officers and sergeants of the company were 
either killed or wounded in this engagement, and at 
its close it was in command of Corporal Tom J. 

Jones. 

At the disastrous battle of Nashville the few men 
of this reoiment who survived held their ground till 
the greater part of the line gave way, and only re- 
treated when it was useless longer to attempt to stem 
the tide of overwhelming numbers, several being cap- 
tured Following the fortunes of the remnant of the 
once grand Armv of Tennessee to North Carolina, the 
gallant One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth took part m 
the last battle of the war (Bentonville) , and then laid 
down the arms it had handled so well on so many 
hard-fought fields, and turned their faces to their 
desolated homes. 



14 History of Henry County Commands 



ROLL OF COMPANY '' F,'^ 

One Hundred and Fifty-Fourth Senior Regiment, 
Tennessee Infantry. 

Captain Edward Fitzgerald; elected major November^ 
1861 ; colonel at reorganization ; killed at Rich- 
mond, Ky. 

First Lieutenant William B. Yowell; promoted to 
captain November, 1861; wounded at Shiloh; dis- 
charged at reorganization. 

Second Lieutenant Charles D. Cooney; promoted to 
first lieutenant November, 1861, and to captain at 
reorganization. 

Third Lieutenant Fitzgerald Williams; promoted to 
second lieutenant in November, 1861; discharged 
at reorganization; re-enlisted; wounded at Frank- 
lin ; appointed cadet in Confederate Military Acad- 
emy. 

First Sergeant H. P. Barbee; appointed commissary 
sergeant ; served through the war. 

Second Sergeant John L. Bennett; wounded at Bel- 
mont, losing leg; discharged. 

Third Sergeant John H. Dunlap, Jr. ; transferred to 
Morton's Battery; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
through the war. 

Fourth Sergeant Frank M. Adams; wounded at Mur- 
freesboro; promoted to lieutenant; served through 
the war. 

Fifth Sergeant Henry Johnson; killed at Jonesboro. 

First Corporal Nat A. Bowman ; killed at Jonesboro. 



In Confederate States Army. 15 

Second Corporal George C. Lemonds; served one 

year. 
Third Corporal D. W. Cameron (color guard) ; 

wounded at Sliiloh ; died at hospital at Memphis. 
Fourth Corporal Carter Foster; discharged (under 

age). 
Fifer Eldridge Wall ; served througn the war. 
Drummer Oscar Sneed ; wounded at Shiloh ; served in 

Company B, Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 
Joe J. Adams; wounded at Murfreesboro, Chicka- 

mauga and Kennesaw and captured at Nashville; 

served through the war. 
I. E. S. Alexander; secured a substitute and re-en- 
listed in Company ^'K/' Twentieth Cavalry. 
Press P. Alexander ; killed at Shiloh. 
J. Thomas Alexander ; served one year. 
Baldwin Atkins ; wounded at Shiloh ; afterwards died 

of disease. 
Green Atkins ; wounded at New Hope ; served through 

the war. 
John A. Atkins ; killed at Shiloh. 
Thomas Banks ; served one year. 
John Barham ; joined the Federals. 
Cicero Bancum ; died at hospital at Columbus, Miss. 
K. A. Bennett; died near Purdy, Tenn., June 4, 1862. 
R. V. Bennett ; killed at Murfreesboro. 
John R. Bonner ; served one year. ^ 

F. M. Bowden ; served one year. 
Frank Bowman; elected lieutenant in Forty-Sixth 

Tennessee and transferred. 
John W. Bradley; served one year. 
A. J. Bradshaw ; served through the war. 



16 History of Henry County Commands 

J. E. Brink] ey; served a year or two. 

D. D. Briseudine; served in Tenth Cavalry. 

Eli Brown ; served three or more years. 

John Brown; served a year or more. 

Thomas A. Bruce; killed at Shiloh. 

James Cartie; killed at Belmont. 

Thomas Carl in; wounded; served a year or so. 

I. L. Case; captured in Kentucky; served as regi- 
mental commissary. 

James Cartha; disappeared during the war. 

James Caton ; wounded at Belmont ; served through 
the war. 

Dr. George W. Conway; detached and appointed sur- 
geon; served through the war. 

Ed. H. Covington ; served one year. 

John W. (Dock) Covington ; killed at Shiloh. 

J. William Covington ; died August, 1862. 

Robert H. Covington ; elected lieutenant at reorgan- 
ization ; served through the war. 

A, J. Cunningham ; transferred to Company ^'D/" 
Fifth Tennessee. 

Robert Dees; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
through the war. 

Stephen Dees; served a year or more. 

Buck Derington ; served a year or more. 

J. K. Polk Diggs; wounded at Richmond, Ky. ; killed 
at Jonesboro. 

H. P. Dollaliite; served a year or more. 

Dowen Dunla]); killed at Kennesaw Mountain. 

Howell Edmunds; discharged (under age). 

Frank Erwin; wounded at ]Murfreesboro and died of 
lockjaw. 



In Confederate States Army. 17 

W. Pink Erwin; served in Company "I," Tenth Ten- 
nessee Cavalry. 
Newton Fodge ; wounded on picket at Atlanta ; served 

through the war. 
H. P. Gaines ; wounded at Jonesboro ; served through 

the war. 
W. H. Griffin ; served one year. 
John J. Guill ; served one year. 
Rev. S. C. Hearn; transferred to Fifth Tennessee 

(which see). 
Orren A. Hearn ; captured at Nashville ; served 

through the war. 
T. P. Holland; wounded and captured at Kennesaw; 

served through the war. 
Elisha Janes ; served one year. 
G. Wash. Janes ; served one year. 
Calvin Jenkins ; served one year. 
Joe Jenkins ; discharged October, 1861. 
John Jenkins; elected second lieutenant at reorgan- 
ization; transferred to Fifty-Second Tennessee; 

wounded at Peachtree Creek (arm disabled) ; 

served on post duty till close of the war. 
Thomas J. Jones; wounded at Murfreesboro and 

Chickamauga; captured at Nashville; served 

through the war. 
W. T. Jones; served one and one-half years. 
Pat Kennedy ; served in Bankhead's Battery till close 

of the war. 
Joseph N. Kennerly; died with measles at home on 

furlough in 1861. 
Thomas B. Kirkland; wounded at Atlanta; served 

through the war ; on retired list. 

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18 History of Henry County Commands 

Wesley Kirkland; served one year and enlisted in 

cavalry. 
John W. Lafferty; elected orderly sergeant at reor- 
ganization; served through the war. 
James Latham ; served through the war. 
A. J. Looney; discharged July, 1862. 
Jesse C. Looney; served in Company "G," Seventh 

Tennessee Cavalry. 
James H. McCampbell ; promoted to third lieutenant ; 

captured while on furlough; served through the 

war. 
James McCarty; killed at Belmont. 
Samuel McClish ; served one year. 
Peter McDaniel; wounded at Chickamauga (lost a 

leg) ; discharged. 
R. D. McCutcheon; wounded at Shiloh; served 

through the war. 
Mike McKinney ; drummed out of the service. 
John A. McSwain ; served one year. 
James Miller; disabled accidentally with bayonet 

and discharged. 
Reuben Mitchell; served one year. 
John H. Mizell ; served one year. 
Elijah Moody; wounded at Atlanta; serve<l through 

the war. 
Sam Moody ; wounded at Murfreesboro. 
John My rick ; served a year or more. 
J. Wilson Myrick; killed at Shiloh. 
Bartle}" Owensb}^; served one year. 
John M. Ozanne; elected orderly sergeant; detached 

to Whitworth Sharpshooters and commanded them 

till close of the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 19 

Frank Pate; served one year. 

Stephen Pate ; captured at Kennesaw ; served tlirougli 
the war. 

John E. Peeples; transferred to Company ''G/' Fiftli 
Tennessee (which see). 

A. J. Pettyjohn; served one year and organized com- 
pany of Partisan Rangers. 

Calvin Ray; promoted to lieutenant October, 1861; 
discharged at reorganization. 

N. G. Russ; died April 14, 1862. 

William L. Russell ; served one and one-half years. 

John Scott; killed at Shiloh. 

William Stanfield; wounded at Shiloh and at Frank- 
lin ; served through the war. 

Richard Watkins; killed at Jonesboro. 

T. H. Weldon ; discharged. 

Adley Wiley; served one year. 

J. Matt Williams; captured at Nashville; served 
through the war. 

Monroe Williams; served one year. 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee Infantry* 



CHAPTER I. 

ORGANIZATION. 

Although Tennessee decided by a large majority, at 
an election held for the purpose in February, 1861, 
not to call a secession convention, yet when the State 
was called upon to furnish troops to coerce their 
sister States of the South who had claimed their con- 
stitutional right by adopting ordinances of secession 
and organizing the Confederate States, Governor 
Isham G. Harris promptly convened the Legislature, 
which at once decided to submit the question of ''sep- 
aration" from the United States and ''representation" 
in the newly organized Confederacy to a vote of the 
people, and meanwhile to put the State in a defensive 
condition. 

The Governor commissioned Colonel William E. 
Travis to raise a regiment of cavalry. It being found 
impossible to secure suitable arms for this branch of 
the service, the plan was changed and an infantry 

20 



In Confederate States Army. 21 

regiment recruited instead. A call was made through 
the columns of the Paris Sentinel and otherwise for 
all who wished to enlist in the regiment to assemble 
at Paris on Saturday, April 20, for the purpose of 
organization. 

Many responded to the call and were formed in line 
in the courthouse yard, and after marching around 
the building several times, they were headed for the 
campus of the male academy and halted on the south 
side of the building and were counted off into eight 
companies of twenty-six men each. Each company 
was instructed to elect a captain and two lieutenants. 
A rainstorm came up about this time and most of the 
companies were organized in the different rooms of 
the academy. The captains were instructed to fill up 
their companies to the number of about 100 men each 
as speedily as posisble. A temporary field organiza- 
tion was also made. Six of the captains then elected 
succeeded in securing a sufl&cient number of men to 
entitle them to be mustered in. One was consolidated 
with another small company, and one failed to recruit 
a company. Three other companies were, in the mean- 
time, recruited in the county, and offered and accepted 
as component parts of the regiment, and Captain 
Corbett's company from Benton County was added 
to make up the complement. After the regiment was 
organized. Captain Winfrey's company, also of Ben- 
ton County, and Captain John A. Lauderdale's of 
Hickman, Ky., requested permission to unite with it, 
and the request was granted, thus making a very 
large regiment of twelve companies instead of the 
usual complement of ten. In order to arouse the 



22 Hlstory of Henry County Commands 

militaiy ardor of the people of the county, and 
thereby hasten the filling up of the ranks, Colonel 
W. E. Travis, Lieutenant-Colonel J. D. C. Atkins, 
Major O. D. Edwards and other speakers, accompa- 
nied by the Pai-is brass baud, made a tour of the vil- 
lages in the county. They were met at all their ap- 
pointments by large crowds of men, women and 
children, and enthusiasm reached a very high pitch. 

As an example of the want of knowledge of how 
war is conducted, an incident of this tour is here 
given. At Conyersville, just after the speaking had 
closed, a man came dashing into the village, his horse 
reeking with sweat and almost exhausted, exclaiming 
at the top of his voice: ^^The Yankees have crossed 
the Ohio River below Paducah and are coming this 
way, kiling men, women and children as they come." 
A scene of frenzied excitement instantly followed. 
Men turned pale, women screamed and wrung their 
hands, and children cried with fear. Colonel Travis 
advised the people to go quietly to their homes, and 
for the men to return next morning with their guns, 
prepared to make resistance, if the report should 
prove true. Next day it was learned that the rumor 
originated in a practical joke started by someone pass- 
ing a school house somewhere in Western Kentucky 
the previous day and calling out something wliich 
was not fully understood. 

Monday, May 20, 1861, was selected as the time 
for the permanent organization of the regiment, and 
on that day Paris beheld such a scene as had never 
before been witnessed on its streets and such as it is 
never likely to witness again. Crowds from every 



In Confederate States Army. 23 

district of the eoiiuty poured into the county seat by 
every road, and long before the middle of the day the 
streets were filled with people. The criers of the dif- 
ferent companies mounted the courtyard fence and 
halloed, ""Oh, yes! oh, yes! all that belong to Captain 
So-and-So's company parade here ! parade here !'' 

When the different comi3auies had been formed, a 
line of march was taken up to McNeill's grove, at the 
intersection of the Huntington and Ft. Mason roads. 
Hundreds of citizens of both sexes and all ages ac- 
companied the line on both sides and in the rear. 
When the grove was reached the companies were 
formed into columns under the trees, and proceeded 
to elect the field officers, as follows: Colonel, Wil- 
liam E. Travis ; lieutenant-colonel, John D. C. Atkins ; 
major, William C. Swor. The staff officers, company 
officers, etc., will appear in their proper places. 



24 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER II. 

CAMP, DRILL AND DISCIPLINE. 

The regiment was ordered to go into camp at Hum- 
boldt at once, but the Memphis & Ohio Railroad, 
which had been but recently built, was very deficient 
in rolling stock, and no means of transportation 
could be secured for several days. The men wer^^ 
ordered to return home and rendezvous again on 
Wednesday, the 22d. But on that day a further delay 
was necessary till Friday, the 24th. On the evening 
of that day enough cars were secured to transport 
one battalion of five companies, under command of 
Lieutenant-Colonel Atkins. Only flatcars were pro- 
vided, and seats were made of crossties placed cross- 
ways a foot or so apart. A large crowd, composed of 
the relatives and friends of the departing soldiers, 
saw them leave and cheered them on their way with 
waving handkerchiefs and hearty cheers. Many of 
the wives, daughters, sisters and sweethearts of these 
embryo soldiers viewed the strange sight and tears 
flowed freely from many eyes as the train steamed 
away. On the evening of the next day four more 
companies followed, amid such scenes as were wit- 
nessed on the previous day. At Henry Station Cap- 
tain W. D. Hallum's company joined the battalion. 
At every station and road crossing groups of people 
were gathered and add6d their quota of enthusiastic 
stimulus given the State's patriotic defenders. 

The regiment went into camp at Humboldt, and 



In Confederate States Army. 25 

were, the next day, armed with old-fashioned heavy 
muskets, usino; a ''buck and ball" cartridge. Guards 
were placed around the encampments, and we settled 
down to the tiresome routine of camp life. About a 
week later we were moved by rail to Union City, and 
were joined by the Sixth, Ninth, Twelfth, Fifteenth, 
Twenty- Second and other regiments, and were placed 
under command of Brigadier-General B. F. Cheat- 
ham, and, with the exception of a few short intervals, 
served under him throughout the war. Very few of 
the officers knew anything about military tactics, but 
we were furnished with two good drill masters. Cap- 
tain W. W. Carnes and — . — . Robinson, and they 
drilled both officers and men, beginning with the tire- 
some squad drill and followed with company and bat- 
talion drills. Progress would have been greater, how- 
ever, but for serious sickness in camp, mainly measles, 
Private W. Shelly Puckett being the first man in the 
regiment to die. Every day relatives and other vis- 
itors came into camp by rail or in vehicles, bringing 
generous supplies of cakes, pies, fruit and other 
knick-knacks, and thus was the monotony continually 
broken and the hearts of the men enlivened by let- 
ters from home, both by mail and private post. 

At a special election held June 8, 1861, the voters 
of the State overwhelmingly decided to separate from 
the United States and to unite with the Confederate 
States. And all the State troops were mustered into 
service of the Confederacy and the oath of allegiance 
to the new government administered. At the regular 
election, on the first Thursday in August, Lieutenant- 
Colonel J. D. C. Atkins was elected to the Confeder- 



26 History of Henry County Commands 

ate Congress and resigned his eommission. Adjutant 
Calvin D. Venable was elected lieutenant-colouel and 
Lieutenant Joseph D. Kendall of Conij^anY 'T'' was 
appointed adjutant. At the State election all the 
soldiers who were entitled to vote were furloughed 
home for that purpose, only the bovs and a few offi- 
cers remaining to look after the camp, and they were 
also furloughed on the return of the older ones. 

About this time Dr. R. T. Clark resigned as sur- 
geon and Dr. Joe H. Porter was appointed in his 
stead. This necessitated other changes and promo- 
tions in the officers of Company ''F.'' Captain M. S. 
Corbett of Company '^E" resigned, and his place was 
filled hj the election of Pleasant G. Swor as captain. 
Generally the changes of company officers will be 
found in the company rolls. Assistant Surgeon Dr. 
F. F. Porter resigned and Dr. T. C. Harcourt was ap- 
pointed. About September 1 an advance movement 
was ordered, and we were transported to Columbus, 
Ky., by rail, and were set to work to fortify the place 
and to fell the timber on both sides of the river to 
give a view of an approaching enemy, to impede his 
progress and to allow a better use of our artillery. 
A strong fort was built on the high bluff called the 
"Iron Banks,'' and heavy batteries mounted down its 
slope. A few days later an advance was made by a 
few regiments to Mayfleld, Ky., as a feint, by which 
to gain time to get our fortifications completed. 

The march was a rapid one, and as the weather was 
warm, the men who had not regained their strength 
after their attack of measles suffered greatly. As 
only cisterns were found from which to get water, 



In Confederate States Army. 27 

thirst was added to our discomforts, but there was no 
complaining. We returned in a couple of days, and 
the work on the fortifications was pushed forward 
rapidly. Private John Yow of Company ''D" was 
killed by a falling tree. 

When the fort was completed it was garrisoned by 
the Fifth Tennessee Regiment, Jones' Battalion 
(afterwards the Fifty-Fifth Tennessee) and a bat- 
talion of heavy artillery under command of Major 
Alex. P. Stewart, and Colonel Travis, as senior offi- 
cer, was placed in command of the fort. Later 
Major Stewart was promoted to brigadier-general and 
given the command of the brigade in the fort. No- 
vember 7 a force of Federals landed on the Missouri 
side of the river several miles above, and, marching 
down, attacked the two regiments of infantry and a 
battery of artillery encamped at Belmont. Several 
regiments under General Cheatham were ferried over 
to reinforce our troops. The officers and men of the 
Fifth bewailed their fate when they found that they 
were not to be included in the reinforcing column, 
and three men, D. F. Alexander, John H. Porter and 
Eobert Tjder, crossed without permission and took 
part in the pursuit of the enemy, and Tyler was killed, 
the first one of the regiment to die in battle. Many 
of the regiment stood on the bluffs and watched the 
progress of the battle and the firing of the huge gun 
( Lady Polk ) . A few days afterward this gun, which 
had been loaded while hot, was fired and exploded, 
killing several men and tearing the coat of General 
Polk, standing near by. Mr. Dublin of Graves 
County, Ky., who was visiting his son in Company 



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'"K," had a leg blown off and died from the amputa- 
tion. His son was discharged that he might go home 
and care for his widowed mother and his sisters. 

The regiment was well housed in tents and shanties, 
many with stoves. They had plenty of books, money 
to buy delicacies from the sutlers, in regular com- 
munication with home, and an occasional visit of 
some of the homefolks, and thus the winter passed 
away pleasantly, and many a time afterward we 
thought of the good times we had at Columbus and 
wished for a return of similar ones. The Federal 
gunboats occasionally came in sight on the river, and 
once threw some shells at us, one of which fell in the 
fort and exploded, but did no harm further than 
giving some of us a good fright. 

General Polk was placed in com- 
mand of the forces at Columbus, and 
(lubl)ed by the men ''Old Granny,'^ 
because the boys thought a preacher 
unfit for the stern duties incident to 
war. 

In February, 1862, General Grant 
captured Ft. Henry, on the Tennes- 
see River, and Ft. Donelson, on the 
Cumberland, thus enabling him to 
get into our rear, and as Colum- 
longer tenable, we evacuated it 
da^s of March and were carried 
to New Madrid, Mo. In passing 
Hickman, Ky., where Company "M" had been en- 
listed, the people lined the shore, and by waving 
handkerchiefs and cheering us, so excited the soldiers 




GEN. L. POLK. 

bus was no 
in the early 
on steamers 



In Confederate States Army. 29 

that they ran to that side of the boat and tilted it so 
much as to cause the water in the boilers to cover their 
red-hot sides and thus risked the danger of an explo- 
sion that would have sent a thousand men into the 
water and most of them into eternity. Lieutenant- 
Colonel Venable hurried the men back to their proper 
places and the equilibrium was restored and disaster 
averted. 

At New Madrid pickets were placed out and the 
erection of fortifications around the town begun. The 
enemy advanced on the place from Bird's Point and 
some skirmishing occurred. Captain W. D. Hallum 
was wounded in one of the skirmishes, the first one to 
be wounded in the regiment. 

The Federals, having occupied Point Pleasant 
below us on the river, New Madrid was abandoned, 
and one dark, rainy night we embarked on boats for 
Island No. 10. The close proximity of the enemy 
made it imperative for us to omit the use of lights, 
and two men. Privates Thomas J. Dumas and Spence 
Hunt were overlooked and left asleep in one of the 
tents, many of which we left standing, and when they 
awoke next morning they found the camp full of Fed- 
eral soldiers and were captured. After a few days' 
stay at Island No. 10, the command was marched 
down to Tiptonville and transported to Randolph, 
and next day to Memphis, and in the evening taken 
by rail to Corinth. Colonel Travis was absent on 
sick leave, and the regiment was now under command 
of Lieutenant-Colonel Venable and Major Swor. The 
troops from Columbus, Ky., were organized into an 
army corps of two divisions, under Major-General 



30 History of Henry County Commands 



Leonidas Polk. Brigadier-General Cheatham com- 
mauded a division of two brigades and Brigadier- 
General Charles Clark the other; Brigadier-General 
A. P. Stewart commanded one of Clark's brigades 
and Colonel R. M. Russell the other. General Stew- 
art's brigade was composed of the Fourth Tennessee, 
Colonel R. P. Neely; Fifth Tennessee, Lieutenant- 
Colonel C. D. Venable; Thirty-Third Tennessee, Col- 
onel A. W. Campbell, and Thirteenth Arkansas, Col- 
onel J. C. Tappan. • 



In Confederate States Army. B1 

CHAPTER III. 

BATTLE OF SHILOH. 

General Grant had transferred his troops from Ft. 
Donelson by river to Pittsburg Landing, twenty 
miles from Corinth, and General Buell was marching 
overland from Nashville to unite his forces with Gen. 
Grant. Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston, who was in 
command at Corinth, determined to attack Grant be- 
fore Buell could reach him. So, on April 2, he put 
his army in motion towards Grant's encampment, 
hoping to make the attack on the morning of the 5th, 
but the roads became so muddy from continued rains 
and the passage of so many wagons and field pieces 
as to be almost impassable. The country was heavily 
wooded and unsuited to travel and the men generally 
unused to marching. The officers, in the main, knew 
nothing practically of campaigning, and the progress 
was slow and wearisome. Some of the commands did 
not get up till the evening of the 5th. 

On the eA^ening of that day and morning of the 6th 
the line of battle was formed, with Bragg's corps in 
the first line, Hardee's in the second and Polk's in 
the third, with Breckenridge's division as reserve. 
The Fifth ocupied a position a little to the left of 
the Corinth road. 

Soon we were ordered forward. The underbrush 
was so thick that it was impossible to keep up a good 
alignment. The firing soon began in front, and we 
pushed on down the slope into a little clearing extend- 



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ing along a narrow valleT. Those who were the last 
to push their way through the thicket, especially the 
file-closers, increased their speed to overtake those 
who were ahead. Here a graijeshot from a distant 
battery struck down J. Perry Murrell of Company 
''K," the first man killed while serving with the regi- 
ment. 

On the crest of a little ridge beyond the valley we 
halted, and the alignment was perfected. A little 
farther on we halted again and deposited our baggage, 
and, after moving forward 200 or 300 yards, a cannon 
ball, or shell, cut down the 
colors in the hands of Wil- 
liam Sims, color-bearer. 



He caught them as they 
were falling and tied the 
pieces of the flagstaff to- 
gether with his canteen 
strap. John Porter and Ed 
Ralls were killed. Lieuten- 
ant J. P. Cooper and Wil- 
liam Whittaker wounded 
by pieces of shell about the 
same time, and B. F. Tay- 
lor knocked senseless by 
the explosion. We then 
moved, by the right flank, 
about 400 yards and forward about the same distance 
under a heavy fire of grapeshot, and halted near one 
of the enemy's encampments, and about fifteen min- 
utes later advanced through the encampment. 

Here the brigade was ordered moved to the left. 




CAPT. J. P. COOPER. 



In Confederate States Army. 33 

This movement was executed by three regiments, the 
Fourth Tennessee, not hearing the command, was left 
behind. Then advancing across a small stream and 
up the side of a hill, we were ordered to lie down by 
General Stewart, who went back to bring up the 
Fourth Regiment. When this was done the Fourth 
was ordered to charge the battery, which had been 
firing into us, and it was captured and silenced, thus 
enabling us to advance, which we did under a heavy 
cross-fire from two batteries and infantry and suffer- 
ing severely in killed and wounded. Here Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Venable observed the One Hundred and 
Fifty-Fourth Tennessee just across a field hotly en- 
gaged with the enemy, and he ordered the Fifth for- 
ward in support. The men were ordered to lie down 
for protection, while one piece of Polk's Battery was 
brought forward and opened fire on the enemy in 
front. Being annoyed by sharpshooters, who had ad- 
vanced up a ravine, the regiments were retired about 
200 yards and two companies of the One Hundred and 
Fifty-Fourth and three of the Fifth were ordered to 
drive them out of the ravine, which they accomplished. 
Having become separated from the brigade, Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel Venable says: '-I charged on an en- 
campment of the enemy, in which I was successful, 
and from what observations I could make there ap- 
peared to be about 1,200 or 1,500 of the enemy in the 
camps. I pursued them through their camj)s, killing 
and wounding a great many and taking several pris- 
oners." 

After moving forward about half a mile the ammu 
nit ion was found to be nearly exhausted and the regi- 
3 



34 History of Henry County Commands 

ment was moved to the left about 300 yards to a ravine 
and the cartridge boxes refilled from wagons. After 
a halt here of only fifteen or twenty minutes the regi- 
ment was moved still farther to the left to avoid an 
open field into which the enemy were pouring a heavy 
fire of artillery. 

After advancing about 200 yards General Polk, in 
person, ordered us to charge an encampment in front, 
by which the only avenue of escape of the Federals in 
the camps was closed, and other troops coming up 
on other sides, General Prentiss' division was cap- 
tured. About the time the surrender was made, Pri- 
vate L. L. Milam of Company "C" rushed up and 
snatched a Federal flag from the hands of the color- 
bearer. 

As soon as the prisoners had been placed in charge 
of a cavalry guard and started to the rear, the regi- 
ment was moved about 300 yards to the rear and 
halted to rest. In a few minutes the Federal gun- 
boats opened a terrific fire with shot and shell. Pri- 
vates James Bouie of Company ^^C and one other man 
were killed, being horribly mangled. We were at 
once ordered to retreat to the protection of a ravine. 
The screaming of the huge shells, the crash of falling 
tree tops, the cries of the wounded were reasons 
enough to hasten our flight, and we ''stood not on the 
manner of our going." At dusk we moved back still 
further and bivouacked among the Federal and Con- 
federate dead. The rains poured down the livelong 
night, but our wearied bodies found repose in sleep. 

We were astir at daylight on the 7th (Monday). 
The great supply of commissary stores in the captured 



In Confederate States Army. 35 

camps furnished food to fill our empty haversacks 
and stomachs. The regiment was ordered by General 
Bragg to report to General Chalmers, on the extreme 
right. We were marched to the place indicated and 
were placed in position for the serious work of the 
day. Lieutenant-Colonel Venable had so strained 
his voice on the previous day trying to make himself 
heard above the roar of battle that he could not speak 
much above a whisper, and it devolved upon Major 
Swor to give the commands. As many of the guns had 
been wet by the rain, it was thought best to fire off all 
of them, clean them out and reload. Major Swor rode 
rapidly along the line, saying : '^When I give the com- 
mand, 'ready, aim, fire,' aim about ten paces in front 
and fire into the ground.'' Before he reached the end 
of the line some of the men, catching the word "fire,'^ 
thought the enemy were advancing and began to fire, 
and soon most of the guns were emptied. Several 
men who were standing in front were in great danger 
and some were wounded. Much confusion prevailed for 
a little while, many believing that the battle had 
opened. But the cause was soon explained and order 
restored. 

Our position was just in the rear of an open field, 
the enemy occupying the woods on the opposite side. 
When the command to advance was given we charged 
through the field under a withering fire, but we were 
unable to drive back Buell's fresh troops from their 
strong position, and were forced to retire to the 
woods. Again and again the order to charge was re- 
peated, and each time heartily responded to, only to 
be beaten back with loss. After the officers had be- 



36 History of Henry County Commands 

come eoiiYinced that further attempts would be futile, 
PriYate J; A. Aguilar of Company ''D" (familiarly 
known as Jesse Mexican) ran out in the field and, 
waYing his hat OYcr his head, Yainly endeaYored to 
induce the men to make another effort, and then 
yelled out at the top of his Yoice, ^'I left me own coun- 
try to come and fight for ye country, and, d ye, 

ye won't fight for ye own country." 

By 2 o'clock General Beauregard became convinced 
that Grant's reinforcements had made him too strong 
to be successfully attacked, and ordered a retreat. 
After moving back to near Shiloh Church we halted 
for an hour or so, and then, after marching a few 
miles, we bivouacked for the night. 

Shiloh was the least scientifically fought battle of 
the war. The attack was made in well-formed lines, 
but the resistance was made very irregular at differ- 
ent points at first in defense of their camps, and our 
troops were moved back and forth through the thickly 
wooded country wherever seemingly needed worst^ 
and so the battle was, in the main, a series of inde- 
pendent attacks and defenses, which it is impossible 
to detail in regular order at this late day, and there 
are many incidents worthy of record that could not be 
properly placed in the narrative, some of which, how- 
ever, will be related. 

Color-Bearer Bill Sims was wounded on the first 
day, and Lieutenant J. P. Cooper of the Color Com- 
pany ^'F" carried the colors for a little while, when 
he gave them to Color-Guard James M. Mitchell. On 
the second day 31itchell was wounded by a sharp- 
shooter. Sergeant J. B. Milam watched the man 



In Confederate States Army. 37 

dodge behind an old house and as he reappeared si sol 
him before he could fire again. Lieutenant Lucius 
Bowman of Company ^^M" was killed by a shot in the 
head while standing on a stump cheering on his men. 

Colonel A. W. Campbell of the Thirty-Third Ten- 
nessee says of one part of the engagement : ''Owing 
to the peculiar location of the ground, the left wing 
of the Thirty-Third and Fifth Tennessee and Thir- 
teenth Arkansas could not engage the enemy without 
firing over the regiments in advance of them. * -* * 
I called to the regiments in advance to charge the 
enemy, which they declined doing. Knowing that I 
must advance or retire, one or the other, I ordered 
the Fifth and Thirty-Third to charge, which was done 
in most gallant style, sweeping the enemy be- 
fore them and i)utting them completely to rout. 
The regiments over which we had charged joined in 
the pursuit, which was continued by the Fifth Ten- 
nessee." General Polk refers to this also in his re- 
port. Captain T. H. Conway was wounded in the 
hand and died at McLemoresville on his way home. 
All the casualties of the battle will be found in the 
various company rolls, and this will be true of other 
battles as well. 

Private Thomas B. Miller of Company "D" was 
wounded about dark Sunday evening and left on the 
field. General Cheatham, in riding over the battle- 
field that night, found him and carried him on his 
horse to the hospital, where he died. 

The night of the 7th was another of incessant rain, 
and next morning we arose drenched to the skin, but 
continued our retreat. The roads were filled with 



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History of Henry County Commands 



wagons and artillery, and the troops wound their 
way through the thick woods on either side of the 
road and were soon scattered and commingled in 
chaotic and indescribable disorder. Lieutenant-Col- 
onel Venable reached camp at Corinth late in the 
evening, with the colors 
and an escort of six men. 
The others straggled in for 
the next two days, all tired, 
many wounded and many 
more sick. Both surgeons 
being on the sick list. 
Lieutenant John T. Irion, 
M. D., was detailed to per- 
form the duties of surgeon, 
and did noble work in 
treating the great numbers 
of sick. 

Soon after the battle of 
Shiloh the flags captured 
there were sent to Rich- 
mond by Lieutenant Clint 
Aden. Private L. L. Milam of Company '^C" had been 
selected to bear the stand he captured, but his serious 
sickness prevented his going. 




CAPT. JNO. T. IRION. 



Tn Confederate States Army. 



39 



CHAPTER IV. 

REORGANIZATION AND SIEGE AND EVACUATION OF 
CORINTH. 



CAPT. p. G. SWOR. 



About the middle of April the Federal arm^' began 
its march to Corinth. The place was fortified by Gen- 
eral Beauregard, who succeeded to the command on 
the death of General A. S. Johnston, and every step 

of the enemy's advance 
was stubbornly resisted, 
and General Hallack ad- 
vanced only by the slow 
process of gradual ap- 
proaches. The Fifth Ten- 
nessee bore a full share of 
the daily skirmishing and 
picketing during the 
months of April and May. 
In one of these skir- 
mishes Captain P. G. Swor 
of Company ''E" dis- 
tinguished himself for 
bravery in gallantly lead- 
ing a charge on the ene- 
my's pickets. We finally 
retired within the fortifications immediately around 
Corinth. No water was to be had except that in the 
small creeks, which ceased to flow on the approach 
of summer, and was covered with a green scum. This 
stagnant water, which was polluted in various ways. 




40 History of Henry County Commands 

produced au epidemic of dysentery and typhoid fever, 
which debilitated, decimated and disheartened the 
arnn^ to a serious extent. 

As an unfortunate mistake had been made in en- 
listing the troops for only one year, and as the time 
was drawing near when the period of enlistment of 
many of the regiments would expire, it became neces- 
sary that some steps should be taken to keep the ranks 
of the army filled. Congress, therefore, passed a gen- 
eral conscript law, making every man between the 
ages of eighteen and thirty-five subject to military 
service (with a few exceptions). All soldiers who 
were under eighteen or over thirty-five years old were 
to be discharged. This law was very unpopular, es- 
pecially the feature by which the commissioned offi- 
cers who were not re-elected were to be honorably 
discharged. The Kentuckians who had enlisted in 
Tennessee regiments felt that as they were not citi- 
zens of the Confederate States that it was unjust to 
compel them to serve beyond the time for which they 
had enlisted. 

An order was issued for the four smallest compa- 
nies in the Fifth Regiment to be consolidated into 
two, thus reducing the number to ten (the usual com- 
plement), and for the regiment to be reorganized by 
the election of field and company officers, which was 
done. The health of Colonel W. E. Travis had failed 
to such an c^xtent that he was unable to endure camp 
life, and he was reluctantly compelled to retire from 
command of the regiment in which he had taken so 
much pride and which he had so diligently labored to 
enlist and equip. 



In Confederate States Army. 41 

C. D. Veuable was elected colonel, William C. Swor 
lieutenant-colonel and J. J. Lamb major. Colonel 
Tenable appointed tlie following staff officers: W. 

D. Kendall, adjutant; Dr. J. M. Brannock, surgeon; 
Dr. M. D. L. Jordan, assistant surgeon; J. K. Hope, 
quartermaster; S. E. Barbee, commissary; Kev. S. C. 
Hearn, chaplain; J. E. Crosswell, sergeant major; 
C. P. Walker, commissary sergeant; D. B. Howard, 
quartermaster sergeant; J. P. Kendall, ordnance ser- 
geant, and Joseph B. Jones, ensign. 

Companies '^A'' and '^C" were consolidated and let- 
tered ''A," and elected the following officers: Cap- 
tain, B. B. Bunch; first lieutenant, W. H. Wilson; 
second lieutenant, A. W. Sidebotton; third lieuten- 
ant, J. B. Milam. Company ^^D" became Company 
"B," and re-elected all its old officers : Captain, A. W. 
Caldwell; first lieutenant, A. M. Milliken* second 
lieutenant, Wes M. Humphries; third lieutenant, T. 
C. Neal. Company ''E'' became Company ^^C :' Cap- 
tain, P. G. Swor; first lieutenant, John P. Rushing; 

second lieutenant, — . — . ; third lieutenant, 

H. R. Linderman. Company "K'' became Company 
^'D :'' Captain, Joe T. Kendall ; first lieutenant, W. 

E. Harris; second lieutenant, J. W. Howard; third 
lieutenant, J. M. B. Elliott. Companies "F'^ and "H'' 
were consolidated and became Copmany ^'E :" Cap- 
tain, J. P. Cooper ; first lieutenant, S. W. Alexander ; 
second lieutenant, S. M. Hagler; third lietuenant, F. 
MarioR Killebrew. Company ^'I'' became Company 
^'F:" Captain, Elijah Foust; first lieutenant, John 
Copeland; second lieutenant, J. C. Tillman; third 
lieutenant, F. M. Clark. Company "B'' became Com- 



42 History of Henry County Commands 

pany ''G :" Captain, H. F. Bowman ; first lieutenant, 
John Hill; second lieutenant, J. Cardwell Wilson; 
third lieutenant, John I. Simmons. Company "L" 
became Company ''H :" Captain, M. M. Fry ; first 
lieutenant, G. C. Camp; second lieutenant, — . — . 

; third lieutenant, — . — . . Company 

'^G" became Company '^I:" Captain, John T. Irion; 
first lieutenant, B. F. Peeples; second lieutenant, 
James I. Stanton; third lieutenant, D. L. Willett. 
Company ''M" became Company ''K:'' Captain, J. 
B. Ward; first lieutenant, J. P. Tyler; second lieuten- 
ant, A. E. Tucker; third lieutenant, R. P. Andrews. 
As soon as the reorganization was perfected and the 
men fully realized that they were to be really con- 
scripted for two years longer, without the privilege 
of visiting their homes and loved ones, they began to 
take '^French leave," singlj^, in couples and in squads. 
As the other men who had looked at it from every 
standpoint, and decided that they could not afford 
to abandon their posts in the face of the enemy, saw 
their comrades leave the ranks, deep despondency 
took hold of them, and the officers who had just been 
chosen or rechosen to position saw their commands 
slowly melting away and felt themselves powerless 
to check the current, their faces wore a continued look 
of seriousness, and every day seemed like a funeral. 
One morning as I went to the adjutant's quarters to 
make my morning report I passed Colonel Venable 
sitting on a campstool in front of his tent, with his 
face bowed upon his hands. Looking up and recog- 
nizing me, he said : "Well, sergeant, did any of your 
men leave last night?" I answered: "Yes, colonel. 



In Confederate States Army. 43 

and some who were on guard, even." His face flushed, 
his eyes flaslied, and he almost liissed the words: 
^^Well, I'm going to call out the regiment this evening 
and tell the men that if any more of them intend to 

go, d them, to go and be done with it." A day or 

so later, as the regiment was going out on outpost 
duty, our brigade commander. General A. P. Stewart, 
came along and instructed Colonel Venable to halt 
the regiment and bring it to a front. And then, in 
his precise, emphatic and apparently curt language, 
said: "I want to say to the Fifth Regiment that if 
any more of the men intend to leave, I hope they will 
go tonight." And spurring his horse, he galloped 
away. It is due to the men who left the ranks at this 
time to say that some of them returned to the regi- 
ment and that most of the others did valiant service 
in Forrest's Cavalry. But it is also simple justice to 
make known to the readers of history the trying cir- 
cumstances under which the undaunted ones re- 
mained at their posts. 

Before the end of May the Federal army had closed 
in around Corinth and cut all the railroads entering 
the place, thus separating us from our base of sup- 
plies, and General Beauregard retreated to Tupelo, 
Miss., and asked to be relieved from command till his 
health imi)roved. General Bragg being assigned to 
command of the army. Many of the soldiers were 
sick and barely able to march. The rearguard hur 
ried them forward and thus prevented their capture. 
The movement was begun on the night of Mav 29. 
1862. 

Captain John W. Harris' Company "C" of the 



44 History of Henuy County Commands 

Forty- Sixth Tennessee, which was on detached ser- 
vice guarding a bridge when the regiment was cap- 
tured at Island Xo. 10, asked that his company be 
attached to the Fifth, and accompanied us on the 
Kentucky campaign, doing valiant service. 

The months of June and July were spent at Tupelo, 
Miss., drilling and recuperating for the next cam- 
paign. The opportunity to perfect the drill and dis- 
cipline of the army was of inestimable value, an<l 
henceforth we deserved the name of veterans, and 
were much more readily handled on the battlefield 
and more easily controlled in camp and on the march. 
July 23 we broke camp and started to Chattanooga, 
the wagons and artillery going by dirt road. The 
Fifth went by rail to Mobile, thence by steamboat to 
Montgomery and by rail again to Chattanooga. A 
few weeks were spent here in drilling and preparing 
for a forward movement. Full of hope and eager to 
advance, we crossed the Tennessee River on a pon- 
toon bridge and marched into Kentucky by way of 
Pikeville, Sparta, Gaine^boro, Hogansville, Mum- 
fordsville and Glasgow to Bardstown. The people 
rejoiced to see us and showered every possible favor 
upon us, and we lived on the fat of the land. 



In Confederate States Army. 45 

CHAPTER Y. 

BATTLE OF PERRYVIULE. 

General 'Buell, having concentrated his forces at 
Louisville, moved out to give General Bragg battle. 
We retired to Danville and Harrodsburg, by the way 
of Perryville. October 7 we countermarched to Perry- 
ville and found the enemy drawn up in line of battle 
west of the town, and on the morning of the 8th ex- 
tended his line to his left and took possession of Chap- 
lain's Hill. To meet this movement, General Cheat- 
ham was ordered to march his division to the right 
and prevent our right from being turned. We moved 
by the right flank to a creek and down the banks of 
the creek to where the road had been roughly graded 
up the bluff. General Polk came up just as we reached 
the bluff, and one of a group of soldiers who were 
tearing up a Federal flag, held up a piece of it, and 
said : ''Look here. General, what we have." General 
Polk replied: ''Come on and let's get one apiece." 
After climbing up the steep declivity, we were de- 
ployed into line and ordered to lie down in the timber 
of small growth, in support of Donelson's Brigade. 
In a few minutes this brigade was ordered to charge 
Chaplain's Hill, on top of which was posted the Fifth 
Missouri Battery of eight guns, supported by the One 
Hundred and Seventeenth Ohio and One Hundred 
and Fifth Illinois Regiments. With a yell, Donel- 
son's brave Tennesseeans rushed over the intervening 
space of 100 yards, firing as they ran. The Federal 



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infantry fired a few rounds and fled pellmell down 
the hill, and the battery was captured. The sound of 
firing receded very rapidly as the Confederates pur- 
sued the fleeing enemy. And very soon we were or- 
dered to advance. When we reached the crest of the 
hill we passed between the guns of the captured bat- 
tery, and saw the dead body of the Federal Brigadier- 
General Armstrong lying near. We then came into 
full view of the conflict our comrades were engaged 
in at a lane about 150 yards down the slope, where 
they encountered the enemy's second line. But few 
of the first line could be halted there to help in re- 
sisting Donelson's terrible onslaught. The sight of 

the struggle going on at 
the lane caused us to 
quicken our pace, and 
breaking into a double- 
quick, we covered the in- 
tervening space in the 
shortest possible time. On 
the way Corporal Bob Har- 
ris fell to rise no more, and 
Lieut. G. C. Camp of Com- 
pany ''H'' fell dangerously 
wounded. At the lane were 
the limbers and caissons of 
the Missouri Battery. All 
the horses had been killed 
except one, which Sergeant 
Kennerly, Company "D," 
who was wounded just then, cut loose and rode to the 
rear. The second line of Federals, when they saw 



m^" 



$\„.-'i 




LIEUT. J. B. MILAM. 



History of Heney County Commands 47 

Stewart's Brigade coming into action, broke and fled 
also, keeping up a desultorj^ firing as tliey retired. 
The pursuit led through a narrow strip of woodland 
and then up a long ascent through a cornfield. About 
100 yards further on Lieutenant J. B. Milam fell, 
with a severe wound in the leg, and about the same 
time Ensign J. B. Jones had his thigh-bone broken, 
but did not loose his hold on the colors, but remarked : 
''The bearer of our colors has fallen before this, but 
the flag has never gone down." Lieuteannt F. M. 
Clark took the colors, but soon handed them to Color- 
Guard A. A. Dinwiddle, who said, in reply to Ensign 
Jones : ''Have no fear, I will try to do my duty." 

Andrew Thompson of Company "B" fell mortally 
wounded, and said to his captain, A. W. Caldwell : 
"Tell my mother where I fell," and drawing the gal- 
lant captain down, kissed his cheek and died. 

By this time all semblance of a line had disap- 
peared, but the officers urged the men forward, and 
they continued to advance, loading and firing as they 
went. In this field the writer of this received a wound 
in the arm, disabling him from using his gun, and he 
retired to the rear. Captain John W. Harris was 
dangerously wounded in passing through the wood- 
land, and Captain John T. Irion and John R. Peoples 
placed him behind a large whiteoak tree. J. W. 
Crutchfield was knocked senseless by the explosion of 
a bomb. Captain Gillett, acting major, was killed. 
Colonel Yenable was partially disabled by a ball 
which mashed his sword scabbard, tearing ofP his belt 
and breaking his horse's leg. Lieutenant-Colonel 



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8wor had his horse killed under him, and his son, G. 
Wash Swor, lost an arm. 

To the left of the field a 
fence divided it from a 
body of woods, and the left 
of the regiment followed 
the fence. Near the top of 
the long ascent, another 
fence crossed this at right 
angles, and just beyond it, 
on the highest elevation, 
were placed three Federal 
l)atteries of heavy field 
pieces, which continually 
belched grape and canister. 
Behind the cross fence was 
posted the enemy's third 
line of battle. In front of 
the fence some thirty or 
forty yards, a force of infantry was stationed in a 
gully. This detachment, on our approach, opened a 
witliering fire of small arms, but the brave Fifth 
pushed forward in the face of it all. When the occu- 
pants of the gully saw the determination of the at- 
tacking party, they clambered up the steep ascent 
and retreated across the open field beyond, over the 
fence and disappeared beyond the hill. The advanc- 
ing regiment made good use of the opportunity and 
cut down many of them before they could get out of 
range. 

The gunners of the battery, seeing their support 
vanisli, waited not for tlie limbers, but seized their 




LIEUT.-COL. WM. C. SWOR. 



In Confederate States Army. 49 

guns and drew them out of sight over the crest by 
hand. When the regiment reached the cross-fence, in 
front of the battery, Privates G. W. Crawford, Sam 
Archer and a few others, who were near the fence 
running east and west, found themselves face to face 
with the Federal line just across in the next field. 
Archer was fatally shot and the others retired across 
the gully. 

The field officers, unaware of the exact situation, 
urged the men forward a second and a third time, 
but each time, lacking support on the left, were com- 
pelled to retire. The gunners of the battery again 
drew their guns forward and opened fire. When the 
field officers were informed of the situation, the line 
was formed and marched by the left fiank into a body 
of woods. The day was now drawing to a close, but 
about dark Donelson's Brigade was ordered forward 
and the Federal line to the left of the battery was 
driven from its position, but darkness prevented 
further pursuit. The names of others killed and 
wounded will be found on the company rolls. 

Cheatham's Tennessee Division captured three 
Federal batteries and drove back three lines of Fed- 
erals and won for themselves a distinction for bravery 
which they ever afterwards maintained on many a 
bloody field. 

About 9 o'clock p. m. General Bragg ordered the 
troops to retire to Harrodsburg, which they did dur- 
ing the night and the following day. Halting only a 
day here, we retired to Camp Dick Eobinson, and as 
soon as the stores captured there could be removed, 
started on our long march to Knoxville, Tenn. On 
4 



50 History of Henry County Commands 

this retreat the ration was two biscuit and two ounces 
of pickled pork, or three ounces of beef. Private 
Houston Taylor, who had been left sick on the ad- 
vance, had partially recovered and, with a companion, 
while trying to rejoin his command, was captured by 
bushwhackers and both mutilated, killed and hung 
to a tree. Colonel J. H. Sharpe of Mississippi, com- 
manding the rear guard, found their bodies, scoured 
the vicinity for the perpetrators, found and hung 
them. 

At Harrodsburg, October 7, Major Lamb, Captain 
Swor and Lieutenants Sidebottom, Tyler and Howard 
were detached and sent to West Tennessee to secure 
recruits. They went to Waverly, crossed the Tennes- 
see Kiver, came very near being captured at Camden 
and finding it impracticable to accomplish anything, 
returned to the command at Murfreesboro. 

After reaching Knoxville an early fall of snow 
found us without tents and caused much discomfort 
and suffering. The troops were moved by rail to Tul- 
lahoma and marched thence to Murfreesboro. 

Many regiments had been greatly reduced in num- 
bers, and what was called a temporary consolida- 
tion was ordered by General Bragg. The Fourth and 
Fifth were combined, each regiment forming five 
companies. Col. O. F. Strahl and Lt.-Col. A. J. Kel- 
lar of the Fourth and Maj. J. J. Lamb of the Fifth 
were assigned as field officers. Companies "A" and 
"C" combined with Capt. B. B. Bunch and Lieuts. 

— . — . ; A. W. Sidebottom and H. E. Linder- 

man. Companies "B'' and "E," Capt. A. W. Cald- 
well and Lieuts. S. W. Alexander, W. M. Humphreys 



In Confederate States Army. 51 

and T. C. Neal. Companies "D" and ''1/ Capt. J. T. 
Kendall and Lieuts. B. F. Peeples, W. E. Harris and 
J. W. Howard. Companies '^F' and "H," Capt. E. 

Foust and Lieuts. — . — . , J. C. Tillman and 

— . — . , and Companies ''G" and "K/' Capt. 

J. B. AVard and Lieuts. John I. Simmons, J. P. Tyler 
and — . — . . 

Colonel Venable was relieved from duty and or- 
dered to West Tennessee with other officers to secure 
recruits. He was taken sick, stopped at a farmhouse 
a few miles out from Murfreesboro and died there. 

Ex-Governor James D. Porter says of him : "No 
officer of his rank was more distinguished, and the 
truth of history compels the statement that he gave 
to the Fifth Tennessee Kegiment its reputation. It 
was his leadership that warranted General Polk to 
refer to it as the brave Fifth Tennessee. He was 
modest and unassuming; he did not affect the pomp 
and circumstance of war; he was content to execute 
and obey orders." No officer of the regiment had a 
stronger hold on the confidence and affection of both 
officers and men. The Tennesseeans were much re- 
joiced to enjoy again the privilege of holding the 
larger part of their native State and to fight for their 
immediate homes, and those from West Tennessee to 
be near enough to loved ones to hear from them 
oftener and to be visited by some of them. It served 
to nerve their arms in the day of battle. 



52 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER VI. 

BATTLE OF MURFREESBORO. 

General Rosecrans advanced from Xashville dur- 
ing the last days of the year 1862, with the purpose 
of crushing the Confederate army or driving it from 
the State. General Bragg formed his army in battle 
array and awaited the attack. Finding his adversary 
loth to join the issue of battle, he took the offensive, 
and on the morning of December 31 General Hardee 
advanced against the extreme right of the Federal 
line and drove it back, causing it to gradually change 
its front almost to a right angle to its original posi- 
tion. As Polk's Corps rested in position, they could 
hear the firing on the left gradually extend forward, 
and as brigade after brigade swung into line, the rattle 
of musketry and roar of artillery drew nearer, till the 
time came for Polk's Corps to take up the movement. 
Withers' Division liad constructed light breastworks 
of rails and some earth. The position was in the edge 
of the timber, in front of which lay an open field. 
Beyond the field, some 400 yards away, a Federal 
battery had been masked in the edge of the cedar 
brake. Cheatham's Division was from 500 to 800 
yards in the rear of Withers'. 

Gen. A. P. Stewart says of his brigade (now con- 
sisting of the Fourth and Fifth consolidated. Nine- 
teenth, Twenty-Fourth and Thirty-First and Thirty- 
Third consolidated, all Tennessee regiments) : ^'We 
gradually swung left forward and occasionally halted 



In Confederate Statues Army. 53 

to readjust the line. Several men were wounded by 
the battery in front. Moved on from this position to 
the Nashville pike and faced to the left. Marched a 
short distance down the road to bring the right under 
cover of the woods, and then again to the front, cross- 
ing open ground, between the pike and cedar brake 
beyond, under heavj^ fire of both artillery and infan- 
try. We advanced to the relief of the front line, which 
was giving way, and by a rapid fire, beginning with 
the Nineteenth on the left, and gradually extending 
to the right, drove back the enemy, who fled in con- 
fusion, leaving many dead and wounded behind. Near 
the edge of the woods came upon the First Missouri 
Battery that had annoyed us so much, and which the 
enemy were attempting to move. Our advance was so 
rapid and -fire so destructive, they were compelled to 
abandon two pieces and one or two caissons. We 
pressed rapidly forward and drove the enemy before 
us. They attempted to make a stand at several points, 
but, unable to endure our fire, were driven through the 
cedars and across the open field beyond to the high 
ground in the vicinity of the railroad. Here they 
took shelter under the guns of three or four batteries. 
These batteries opened upon us and for some time 
we were exposed to a terrific fire of shell, canister 
and spherical case. We had no artillery and were 
nearly out of ammunition. The brigade was halted 
and both sent for. While moving through the cedars 
Jackson's Brigade came up on our right, with the 
Fifth Georgia on our immediate right, and with the 
Fourth and Fifth Tennessee, advanced beyond the 
general line and delivered a heavv and well-sustained 



54 History of Henry County Commands 

fire upon the retreating ranks of the enemy, doing 
fine execution. Colonel Jacques of the First Louisiana 
delivered an order to Colonel Tansil (Thirty-First 
and Thirty-Third Tennessee) from General Cheatham 
to move by companies to the rear, and other regiments 
followed this one." But General Stewart soon halted 
and reformed the line and moved forward again to the 
edge of the woods, remaining till dark, then withdrew 
a few hundred yards to the rear to bivouac, gathering 
up small arms, ammunition and equipments, which 
were sent to the rear next day in wagons. Pickets 
were placed in front. On the morrow at daylight the 
troops were advanced to the edge of the cedar thicket 
and lay there all day exposed continually to the fire 
of the enemy's batteries, but protected some by in- 
trenchments. This was continued for three days. The 
failure of Breckinridge's attack on the east side of 
Stone River the evening of January 2, 1863, con- 
vinced General Bragg of the impossibility of dislodg- 
ing General Rosecrans from his strong position, and 
on the night of January 3 he withdrew and retired to 
Shelbyville and Tullahoma and went into winter 
quarters. 

Congress, having enacted a law giving each com- 
pany the privilege of selecting one man in its ranks 
whom they regarded as the bravest man in each battle 
to receive a medal from Congress, the following men 
were selected by the different companies of the Fifth : 
Company "A," Corp. W. F. Diggs; Company ''B," 
Sergt. J. A. Aguilar; Company "C," Sergt. L. D. Hol- 
land; Company "D," Private W. T. (Link) Ballard; 
Company ^'E," Corp. W. A. Thompson; Company ^^F," 



In Confederate States Army. 55 

Private J. J. Hagler; Company ''G/' Private D. C. 
Baucum; Company "H," Private W. 0. Malin; Com- 
pany ''I/' Private G. D. Coston ; Company ''K/' Corp. 
J. B. Johnson. Of these Ballard, Malin and Coston 
were killed. Other casualties will be found in the 
company rolls. 

The author was absent on furlough waiting for his 
wound received at Perryville to heal, and so was not 
an eye witness or participant in the battle of Mur- 
freesboro; hence cannot i>o into details so well. 



56 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTEK VII. 

THE SUMMER OF 1863. 

While at Shelbyville smallpox appeared in the 
Fifth Regiment and all the command was vaccinated 
and the disease stamped out. Stewart's Brigade, 
after remaining here a few days, was ordered on out- 
post duty at Guy's Gap, nine miles north of Shelby- 
ville, on the Murfreesboro pike, and here we remained 
from February 7 till June 27. These were the halcyon 
days of our soldier life. Encamped in a rich locality, 
where the people were hospitable to a fault, we had 
the best of foraging ground, and fruit, vegetables, 
milk, eggs, butter, chickens, etc., formed a part of our 
regular fare, and many of us had each what Lieut. W. 
E. Harris called a "farm yard," where we were always 
welcome and from which we always returned loaded 
with good things to eat, paying for it, of course. When 
the fine wheat crop ripened, many soldiers were al- 
lowed to help reap the golden grain that otherwise 
would have been lost for want of harvesters. The 
daily drill and weekly inspection were kept up, but 
hardened by camp life and inured to fatigue by hard 
marches, we cared not for these necessary duties. We 
were maneuvered in brigade drill for the first time 
and our evolutions much improved. 

A large bush arbor was erected and seated with 
rough lumber, and regular religious services held by 
the chaplains and other ministers each Sabbath, and 
prayer meetings held on Wednesday nights. A Sun- 



In Confederate States Army. 57 

day school was organized, with John R. Peeples as 
superintendent, and also singing classes formed, sev- 
eral dozen copies of the Southern Harmon}^ being 
ordered from Atlanta. When the open weather of 
spring came there were protracted services -held at 
night for weeks. The arbor was lighted by fires built 
on small scaffolds on three sides. A great religious 
revival was the result of these meetings, and under the 
fervent preaching of Chaplains S. C. Hearn of the 
Fifth Eegiment, McCutchen of the Twenty-Fourth, 
aided by Lieut. B. F. Peeples of Company ''I," J. W. 
Pillow of Company '^D," — . — . Butts of Stanford's 
Battery and others and several citizen ministers, 
many of the soldiers were warned to ^^flee the wrath to 
come," and pointed to ''the Lamb of God that taketh 
away the sin of the world," and very many hapiDily 
converted, and many devoted and faithful Christians, 
now widely scattered, look back to those days and 
nights as the time when they "enlisted under the ban- 
ner of King Immanuel." Nearly a hundred conver- 
sions were reported. About sixty of them were bap- 
tized, mostly by immersion. These were admitted 
into a Christian association composed of Christians 
of various denominations. The effect of these meet- 
ings on the morals of the brigade was very marked. 
Profanity, obscenity, gambling, card playing for fun 
became much less common and religion became a com- 
mon topic of conversation. 

Late in June the Federals advanced towards Tulla- 
homa and captured Hoover's and Liberty Gaps, and 
it became necessary to abandon our fortified position, 
four miles north of Shelb^wille, and retire to Tulla- 



58 History of Henry County Commands 

homa. After some skirmishing it was deemed unwise 
to try to hold the position there and we retreated still 
further, crossing Cumberland Mountain on July 3 
and 4, and the Tennessee River at Bridgeport a day 
or so later. Marched part of the way to Chatta- 
nooga and then boarded a welcome train reaching 
Chattanooga on the 7th, and went into camp (or biv- 
ouac) on the same ground we occupied in August, 
1862. General Stewart having been promoted to 
major-general, Colonel Stralil of the Fourth was 
placed in command of the brigade, and Lieut. -Col. 
A: J. Kellar of the regiment. Lieut. B. F. Peeples was 
made captain of Company ''I,'' vice Capt. Jno. T. 
Irion, resigned ; M. Corbett, second lieutenant of Com- 
pany ^^C;" Joseph H. Jordan, second lieutenant of 
Company ''E;" G. W. Crawford, third lieutenant of 
Company ''E;" J. \j. Lemonds, second lieutenant of 
Company "I," and Sam Kirkpatrick, third lieutenant 
of Company "K." Lieut.-Col. W. C. Swor resigned on 
August 8, 1863, and Maj. J. J. Lamb was promoted to 
colonel, and later Capt. B. B. Bunch to major. Lieut. 
J. L. Lemonds, after serving one year as a subaltern 
in Company ^^C," was discharged at the reorganiza- 
tion. After a short visit home he returned and en- 
listed as a private in Company "B," carrying a musket 
for about a year, when he was elected second lieuten- 
ant of Company ^'I," and later promoted to first lieu- 
tenant. During August and the first week in Septem- 
ber we were occupied in fortifying Chattanooga, and 
after the Federals advanced, in picketing tlie Tennes- 
see River. The enemy having crossed Lookout Moun- 
tain south of us, we abandoned Chattanooga and 



In Confederate States Army. 59 

inarched to LaFayette, Ga. While here au order was 
made for every fifteentli man to be detached as cook- 
ing detail, and ever afterwards, except when in winter 
quarters, this rule was continued, and this detail was 
kept from a mile to five miles in the rear, and our food, 
ready cooked, brought to us each day, an arrangement 
we were often thankful for. 



60 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER VIII. 

BATTLE OF CHICKAMAUGA. 

From September 8 to IT Tsre maneuvered, marched 
and counter-marched between Chattanooga and 
LaFa^^ette, Ga. On the latter date we moved in the 
direction of Chattanooga, camping on the night of 
September 18 at Lee & Gordon's mill, on Chicka- 
mauga Creek. On the morning of the 19th we crossed 
the creek a mile below the mill, and after resting 
awhile double-quicked on in the direction of the firing, 
which had now begun. Soon passed Hood's Division 
and learned without doubt that Longstreet's Corps 
had come to reinforce us. This cheered our hearts 
and buoyed us up for the coming conflict. But we 
felt humiliated and mortified when we saw how much 
better clothed they were than ourselves. 

Soon after we met cavalry filing to the rear and saw 
their wounded. A mile or so further on we fronted 
and advanced in line, and stray shells and even min- 
nies began to fly over us, one of the latter wounding 
Dick Coley of Company "E," and R. A. Burton of 
Company ''A." We halted in the edge of the woods 
and in a little while moved forward in line of bat- 
tle, partly across an old field grown up in bushes 
and saplings. Gen. Preston Smith appeared and cau- 
tioned us not to fire on his men, who were in front. 
We were soon ordered back to the edge of the woods. 
During this movement the balls were flying pretty 
thick from the fighting in front, and W. C. Alexander 



In Confederate States Army. 61 

of Company ^^A," J. J. Hagler and W. H. Allen of 
Company "F," and J. D. Wilson of Company ^'D/' 
were wounded, and Lieutenant Webber of the Fourth 
killed. We were again advanced into the old- field 
under fire, but again were ordered back to the woods, 
remaining there till nightfall. About sundown the 
enemy attacked the Confederates just to our right, 
and Maney's and Churchill's Brigades were moved 
to the right and soon repulsed them, but the brave 
Gen. Preston Smith was killed. At night Companies 
^^G" and ^^K'^ were placed on picket. All day long 
the firing continued, being heaviest on our left. On 
the morning of the 20th, the dead strewn on the bat- 
tlefield were white with the early frost, and brought 
to our minds the fact that we were in the midst of 
death, though for awhile almost deathly silence 
reigned. But as the sun rose and climbed upward, the 
crack of rifles on the skirmish line began and was 
soon followed by the roar of artillery, and ere long 
the battle was raging right, left and front. All the 
morning we lay in the edge of the woods exposed to 
the shelling of a battery. Some of the shells fell 
short, some passed over, and one striking the ground 
about fifty yards in front, ricocheted and struck Gid. 
Comer of Company "I" on the hip, crushing it and in- 
flicting a mortal wound. It rolled off on the arm of 
J. W. Pillow of Company ^^D," covering it with blood 
and benumbing it temporarily, but luckily did not ex- 
plode. The regiment stood the severe test of the 
shelling without flinching. 

The enemy was driven back in the evening and we 
were moved to the right and forward, and again ex- 



62 History of Henry County Commands 

posed to heaw shelling. Late in the evening we were 
moved forward again with Wright's Brigade, Gen- 
eral Cheatham taking charge and giving the com- 
mands in person. StrahPs brigade, however, was 
soon halted, and only Wright's advanced. Long- 
street's Corps had driven the enemy from their 
breastworks on our extreme left, and the whole line 
moved forward, and the enemy fled toward Chatta- 
nooga. 

As the sound of the firing receded and became less 
and less distinct in the distance. Generals Polk and 
Cheatham and others assembled in our front and lis- 
tened attentively to the rebel yells that took the place 
of the sounds of cannon and musketry, and Gen. Polk 
remarked: "Isn't that grand?" We moved forward a 
little. As night came on we prostrated ourselves on 
the ground and slept as only tired soldiers can sleep. 
We had suffered much for water during the two days, 
as it had to be brought from Chickamauga Creek, 
two or three miles away. 

Next morning a pleasant episode occurred. A few 
men in each company had secured rifles at Shiloh. 
Soon afterward these had been ordered given to Com- 
pany "K," that the distribution of ammunition might 
be made easier. At Perryville and Murfreesboro many 
others had thrown down their muskets and picked up 
rifles. These, in turn, had been given to other regi- 
ments, and the Fifth compelled to put up with the 
heavy old Belgian muskets. But on this morning 
every man had secured either an Enfield, or a Spring- 
field rifle from the battlefield, and so when we formed 
where we liad stacked arms on the pervious evening, 



In Confederate States Army. 63 

and tlie order ^'take arms^' was given, the men slionl- 
dered tlieir rifles and marched away, leaving the row 
of old muskets stacked, proud of their rifles, which 
they henceforth used till the end of the war. Col. J. J. 
Lamb commanded the regiment for the first time in 
battle, and we were proud of his courage, coolness and 
military bearing. Maj. Henry Hampton of the 
Fourth had been assigned to duty with the regiment 
and Lieutenant-Colonel Finley, also of the Fourth, 
soon after the battle. 

We followed the enemy into Chattanooga valley, 
saw them occupy the fortifications we had erected a 
few weeks before, which we proceeded to inclose with 
another cordon of entrenchments. A good many pro- 
motions and changes took place during the next few 
weeks. Capt. J. T. Kendall, who had been absent on 
furlough was assigned to duty in Companies ^^D" and 
"I," and Captain Peeples relieved. Lieut. J. L. Lem- 
onds of Company ''I'' was promoted to first lieutenant, 
Sergt. E. H. Rennolds was elected third lieutenant of 
Company "D'^ and assigned to duty, Sergts. John E. 
Flack and George H. Wynns of Company ^'I" were 
elected second and third lieutenants. Lieutenant 
Wynns being assigned to duty and Lieutenant Flack 
detached. Sergeant N. C. Howard was elected 
third lieutenant of Company ''A" and assigned, and 
G. W. Crawford, second lieutenant of Company "E" 
and assigned, also Lieuts. W. E. Harris and J. W. 
Howard of Company "D" were put on detached ser- 
vice. 

October 8th President Davis visited the army. The 
troops were formed in line along the works, and as 



64 History of Henry County Commands 

he passed we had a good look at him, and gave him 
lusty cheers. On the 13th the band of the First Ten- 
nessee went to General Bragg's headquarters and ser- 
enaded the President, many of us soldiers accompany- 
ing it. He made a short speech. While encamped 
around Chattanooga the weather was very rainy, the 
fatigue duty in fortifying very hard, the rations very 
short and our clothing scant, .and without tents to 
protect us, we suffered very much. 

October 25, Cheatham's and Stevenson's Divisions 
were sent to East Tennessee, going by rail to Charles- 
ton and marching to Sweetwater. Longstreet's Corps 
soon relieved us and we returned to Chattanooga val- 
ley. Our train was wrecked by spreading rails on 
our return trip and several men injured. The wheels 
of the boxcar in which Caldwell's company was travel- ' 
ing broke through the floor and Lieut. G. W. Craw- 
ford's leg was caught between the wheels and floor 
timbers, and he could only be extricated with a crow- 
bar. The damaged cars were tumbled off the track, 
the train coupled up and we started again. A few 
miles further on the engine jumped the track and we 
counted the crossties the balance of the distance. 

Cheatham's Division, composed entirely of Tennes- 
seeans, was regarded by General Bragg as too clan- 
nish, and it was decided to break it up by an exchange 
of brigades. Strahl's Brigade was sent to Stew- 
art's Division. While the men did not dislike serv- 
ing under their old commander, they did not want to 
leave "Old Frank" or their fellow Tennesseans, and 
much dissatisfactio-n ensued. 



In Confederate States Army. 65 

CHAPTER IX. 

BATTLE OF MISSION RIDGE. 

The author was absent at Atlanta on a short fur- 
lough during this battle, hence is not able to give 
an account as an eye witness. 

Before daylight on the morning of November 24, 
1863, General Hooker's Corps assaulted the Confed- 
erate position on Lookout Mountain and carried it. 
On the evening and night of that day General Bragg 
withdrew from his fortified line in the valley and oc- 
cupied a new line along the crest of Mission Ridge. 
General Sherman threw a pontoon bridge across the 
river near the northern terminus of the ridge and 
attacked our right flank. General Hooker marched 
across the valley to Rossville, at the southern end of 
the ridge, and attacked our left flank, and General 
Thomas, with three lines of battle, advanced in front. 
General Grant commanding the whole. The Confeder- 
ate skirmish line was posted beyond the foot of the 
ridge. The Thirty-Third Tennessee, acting as skir- 
mishers for StrahPs Brigade, were about 200 yards 
from the foot of the ridge. The' Fourth and Fifth 
Tennessee were posted in a short rifle pit about one- 
third way up the slope, as support for the skirmish 
line. Companies "G" and ^^K" were on detached ser- 
vice, guarding the division wagon train. 

Late in the evening of November 25th the Federal 
lines advanced to the attack, and those who wit- 
nessed it describe it as the grandest spectacle they 
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66 History of Henry County Commands 

ever saw. The commands of the officers could be dis- 
tinctly heard. On their approach the skirmishers 
slowly retired before them, followed by the steady ad- 
vance of the first line. Colonel Lamb stood on the 
mountain side, just in rear of the colors, without pro- 
tection, and with his arms folded called out to the 
men: "I don't want a gun fired till I oive the com- 
mand, and then every man fire, and continue to load 
and fire until further orders." When the line reached 
the foot of the ridge and began the ascent. Colonel 
Lamb's voice rang out clear and distinct in the awful 
stillness : ''Ready I Aim ! ! Fire ! 1 1" The regiment 
took steady aim and poured in a volley, of which 
every ball seemed to find its mark, and tore great gaps 
in the Federal line, and brought it to a sudden halt. 
A cheer from their comrades on the top of the ridge 
animated and nerved the men, and the rattle of ram- 
rods sounded distinctly as they reloaded and poured 
volley after volley into the remnant of the line of blue- 
coats, and then into the second one as it came up. 
Neither the first or second line advanced beyond the 
point where the regiment's fire met them. By the time 
the third line came up, the first line to the right and 
left of the Fourth and Fifth had almost reached a 
point opposite to their position, and then the order to 
retire was given. Some of the men thought the 
chances too desperate to undertake to climb the ridge 
under such a fire as they knew they woukl receive, and 
remained in the trench and were captured. Others 
preferred to take any risk rather than go to a Yan- 
kee prison. When they emerged from the rifle pit 
they drew a concentrated fire from front and both 



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67 



flanks. Capt. E. Foust was killed and Capt. J. T. 
Kendall dangerously wounded and died under knife 
of the Federal surgeon at Chattanooga a few days 
later. Sam B. Cox, of 
Company ''I" fell mortally 
wounded just after leav- 
ing the rifle pit. Sergt. 
W. D. Hendricks was shot 
through the shoulder, and 
the same ball wounded 
Jno. R. Peeples, who was 
just in front of him. Lieut. 
Geo. H. Wynns, just out of 
a spell of fever, ran till he 
was exhausted, fell, and af- 
ter the Federal lines had 
passed him, returned to the 
rifle-pit and surrendered. 
Lieut. Joe H. Jordan was 
killed before reaching the 

summit, also Marcus D. Milan and Bose Crutchfield. 
AY. J. Nash reached the breastworks on top of the 
ridge, and was so nearly exhausted that his comrades 
had to drag him over the works. 

The few men of the Fourtli and Fifth who were 
fortunate enough to reach the crest of the ridge found 
only a thin skirmish line to repel the advancing hosts 
of the enemy, but they halted and stood ready for the 
task. Capt. A. W. Caldwell, observing that a large 
body of Federals had taken refuge in a deep ravine 
near the top of the ridge, called on the Fourth and 
Fifth to charge them, and led the way to the brink of 




CAPT. J. T. KENDALL. 



68 History of Henry County Commands 

the ravine, where a heavy and destructive fire was 
poured into the living mass, killing and wounding a 
great many. Soon, however, the enemy, who had ad- 
vanced on the left, were seen marching to cut off the 
regiment's retreat, and they were forced to retire, 
and, crossing the ridge, they started down the eastern 
slope. 

General Bragg dashed up on lus horse and called 
out : ^^Don't run, boys ; don't run. Here's your coun- 
try; here's your General, and here's jonr flag." A 
fleeing Confederate replied : ^'Yes, and here's your 
mule," as he leaped the bushes in long strides down 
the decline. About half way down the slope Gen. A. 
P. Stewart rode up to Ab Dinwiddle, the color-bearer, 
and said: ^^ Whose colors are these?" Dinwiddle 
promptly replied: ''Fourth and Fifth Tennessee." 
General Stewart said: "Give me your colors." Din- 
widdle replied : ''General, you cannot have my colors, 
but I will plant them where you direct or die in the at- 
tempt." "Plant them there beyond that little glade," 
General Stewart ordered. Dinwiddle promptly 
obeyed the order, and then General Stewart called 
out : "Fourth and Fifth Kegiments, Strahl's Brigade, 
you have never failed me ; you won't now. Kally on 
your colors and protect your army." Every man of 
the regiment who was in hearing and others of various 
commands rallied on the colors, and less than a hun- 
dred poured a hot fire into the rapidly advancing 
enemy and checked them till the remnants of other 
regiments could be rallied down near the Chicka- 
liiauga Creek and a disastrous rout prevented. 

Night coming on, they retired across the creek and 



In Confederate States Army. 69 

dropped down and slept and rested their tired bodies. 
The retreat soon became orderly and was continued 
to Dal ton, about thirty miles. At Ringgold Gap 
Cleburne's Division ambushed the pursuing Federals 
and put an end to the pursuit. The four (consoli- 
dated) companies of the Fifth went into action with 
119 men; 60 of these were killed, wounded or cap- 
tured. 

Gen. J. E. Johnston superseded General Bragg 
soon after we reached Dalton, and soon brought order 
out of chaos. Every department of the army was over- 
hauled and improved, and he soon inspired the sol- 
diers with a confidence which remained unshaken till 
the close of the war. This confidence was exceeded 
only by that given by General Lee's men to their 
chief. 

One of General Johnston's first acts was to recon- 
struct Cheatham's Tennessee Division. Great was the 
joy of the soldiers of the volunteer State to get back 
under "Old Frank" and to once more fight together to 
maintain the reputation they had made at Perry ville 
and magnified at Murfreesboro and Chickamauga. 

At Dalton comfortable shanties were soon erected, 
and these protected us from the rigors of the ex- 
tremely cold winter that followed. The first week in 
January, 1864, the coldest weather of the war, was 
experienced, and it was the lot of the regiment to be 
on provost guard duty in Dalton, and we suffered 
very much, patrolling the streets and bivouacking in 
an unfinished hotel, without window or door shutters, 
and with only a scant supply of wood. 

On February 20, Cheatham's Division was ordered 



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to Mississippi to reinforce General Polk. We went by 
rail to Montgomery, Ala., then by steamer to Selma 




GEr*T B. F. CHEATHAM. 



and by rail ai»ain to Demopolis, whither General Polk 
had retreated. The enemy had already begnn to re- 
tire when we reached Demopolis, and next day we 



In Confederate States Army. 71 

started on our return. This trip was a great benefit 
to us in the way of recreation. At every station 
crowds of ladies, old men and children gathered to see 
us, and the waving of handkerchiefs and cheers of 
men and boys gave us a new stimulus, bringing back 
to our minds the early days of the war, and we re- 
turned to camp refreshed and inspired for the coming 
decisive campaign. We found our shanties had been 
nearly all used b}' Jackson's Brigade for fuel, and we 
were very wratliy on account of it. March 22 there 
was a smart fall of snow, and the brigade determined 
to take vengeance on Jackson's Brigade for the loss 
of our quarters, and, filling our haversacks with hard- 
pressed snowballs, we formed in line, with officers on 
horseback, and charged them in their camp. Though 
they resisted stubbornly, we drove them out and cap- 
tured their general. It was a stirring scene; the air 
filled with flying snowballs, the orders of the officers 
and the yells of the men seemed much like real war. 

As the open weather of the spring came on an oppor- 
tunity to hold open-air religious meetings was again 
afforded our faithful chaplains, and another revival 
commenced. Services were first held in a small 
church building east of Dalton, and whe^ the con- 
gregations outgrew it, a brush arbor was built nam- 
by, and man^^ soldiers were hopefully converted under 
the earnest preaching of those who had been so suc- 
cessful at Guy's Gap, aided by others, among v/hom 
was Eev. R. W. Norton, formerly principal of Spring 
Hill Academ}-, in Henry County, and who had l^ecn 
recently appointed chaplain of the Nineteenth Ten- 
nessee. Just before the opening of the campaign a 



72 History op Henry County Commands 

sad accident occurred. One night during the "altar 
exercises," Avhile several were kneeling and deeply 
interested in their salvation, a tree which had beer, 
burning at the root for some time fell across the 
kneeling men, killing ten of them and wounding an- 
other one fatally. None of them, however, belonged 
to the Fifth. This incident elicited much earnest dis- 
cussion, many soldiers taking the position that those 
who were killed would be saved, as others also, they 
declared, would be who lost their lives in defense of 
their country. Many others of us, however, though 
unconverted, felt that it was not safe to risk our 
chances for heaven on such false theology. 

During the latter part of April, 1864, General John- 
ston began to fortify his position at Dalton, Rocky 
Face Ridge, just west of the town, forming a strong 
natural position. Early in May General Sherman 
began his advance. Cheatham's Division occupied 
rifle pits just to the right of Mill Creek Gap. Here 
brisk skirmishing was kept up for several days. On 
the evening of May 8, being in reserve, the Fourth and 
Fifth Regiments were sent to reinforce some cavalry 
at Dug Gap. After a roundabout march of ten miles, 
part of it at double quick and part of it up the moun- 
tain side, we reached there thoroughly fatigued. We 
found the small force of Confederates stubbornl}^ re- 
sisting the attack of the enemy in a slight depression 
in the ridge through which ran the road. Quickly 
deploying to the right and left, we poured in a heavy 
fire on the assaulting column. Elevated above the 
attacking party and protected by rocks and trees, we 
held a great advantage, and our combined forces were 



In Confederate States Army. 73 

enabled to repulse them without any casualties except 
some slight wounds. The enemy shelled heavily about 
the close of the day. We threw up fortifications dur- 
ing the night. We were relieved at daylight next 
morning. At the opening of the campaign our musi- 
cians were detailed to act on the infirmary corps, and 
as nurses at the field hospitals, and did excellent ser- 
vice in these capacities. 



74 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER X. 

BATTLE OF RE8ACA. 

Part of Sherman's forces having passed through 
Snake Creelv Gap and advanced toward the Western 
& Atlantic Railroad, General Johnston abandoned 
his position at Dalton and marched to Resaca, where 
we arrived on the evening of May 13. 

After a short rest a line of battle was formed and 
the Fourth Regiment thrown out as skirmishers. We 
moved forward about a mile, and on passing over the 
crest of a hill we came suddenly in view of th(^ enemy. 
A steep descent led to a small valley, beyond which, 
on a low ridge, the Federals were posted. The hillside 
was in tim])er and the valley an open field. Our skir- 
mishers had already drawn the enemy's fire, and as 
we came over the hill the line of battle opened on us 
with a discharge of rifles at a range of about 300 
yards. We halted here and returned the fire. The 
crest of the hill was very crooked and we struck it at 
its most retired part, and thus came into view first. 
As other parts of the line came in sight of the enemy 
they also became engaged, thus forming a curved line. 
General Hardee (in whose corps we now were) came 
along on foot and ordered us to advance down the side 
of the hill till the line was much nearer straight. This 
brought us nearer the enemy and exposed us without 
protection. Parts of the hillside had considerable 
undergrowth and seemed to screen us from view, but 
there were some open spaces, which enabled the 



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75 



enemy to see the troops distinctly. One of these opens 
was occupied by Companies ''G'' and ^'K/' and the 
enemy's fire was concentrated upon them, causing 
them to lose heavily. Firing was kept up till night- 
fall. Capt. J. B. Ward, Company ''K," was killed, 
and also Corp. A. D. Beckwith, Company ^'D." He 
had been a very wicked man, but was converted at the 
Dalton revival a few weeks previous. He was sitting 
by a small hickory, too small to protect him, and when 
struck hj a minnie ball, seemed to realize that the end 
was nigh. He dropped his 
gun, commenced to clap 
his hands, and exclaimed : 
''Bless the Lord!" and in a 
few seconds was dead. This 
scene affected all who wit- 
nessed it, and one comrade 
tells me that it changed the 
whole current of his life. 
About twenty were 
wounded, Maj. B. B. 
Bunch severely in the 
thigh, Lieut. A. W. Sidebot- 
tom in the head, R. P. 
Kirby fell with a broken 
ankle, causing the loss of 
his foot; T. J. Broach re- 
ceived three wounds ; A. McFarland and M. M. Parker 
of Company ''K" died of their wounds; Lieut. R. P. 
Andrews of Company ''K'' and others were wounded. 
Soon after dark picks and spades were brought up 




MAJ. B. B. BUNCH. 



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f^ lipi 



and the whole iiioht spent in fortifying, half of the 
command working till midnight and the other half 

till morning, and by day- 
light we were pretty well 
ensconced in rifle pits. 

On the 14th the author 
was in charge of the regi- 
mental picket line, sta- 
tioned behind slight forti- 
fications at the foot of the 
hill. About 10 a. m. the 
^ enemy's skirmishers ad- 

^^^^W^^ vanced and secured posses- 
I^^^FaBfel sion of a ditch running 
^iiB* ^^^H through the valley, in spite 
Mk ^^^1 of heavy fire from both the 
^ ^^^H picket line and line of bat- 
tle. They were then able 
to enfilade our slight 
works and make us lie very low, but, fortunately, none 
were injured. 

About noon Lieutenant Rennolds secured from Col- 
onel Lamb the relief of the pickets, something never 
before or since attempted in the face of the enemy. 

During the 14th and 15th almost continual skir- 
mishing was kept up and two of the Fifth wounded. 
A Federal battery shelled our line a good deal. A 
shell fell into the rifle pit, where it lay sizzing and 
ready to explode. Lieut. F. M. Clark and A. H. Lank- 
ford each grabbed at it and together threw it out of 
the works. It exploded before it struck the ground. 
The works were strenghened on the night of the 14th. 



LIEUT. A. W. SIDEBOTTOM. 



In Confederate States x\rmy. 77 

General Sherman, having thrown a pontoon across 
the Oostanaula Eiver, beyond our left flank, and 
crossed troops, thus threatening our communications, 
General Johnston abandoned Kesaca on the night of 
the 15th. We crossed the river on bridges and 
marched all night, and the next day lialted awhile 
near Calhoun and formed line of battle, but later 
marched seven miles further and bivouacked as tired 
and sleepy as we had ever been. On the 17th, marched 
to within two miles of Adairsville and bivouacked, 
but the Federals pressed our cavalry rear guard back 
till we had to form line and other regiments skir- 
mished with them till night. Retired again at 10 
p. m. and marched three miles beyond Kingston. The 
men beginning to succumb to the hard marching and 
loss of sleep. 

On the 19th we formed in battle order about 10 
a. m. As about half the Federal army was advancing 
on each of the two roads. General Johnston planned to 
attack and try to crush one column before the other 
could come to its relief, but just as we were ready to 
attack, a false report that the enemy was coming in 
by a road to our rear caused him to abandon the plan, 
and he ordered the line to retire. This we did by the 
right of companies to the rear. As we were in open 
fields, on comparatively level ground, a fine view of 
the movement could be had, and it presented a grand 
sight. The pace was double-quick for about three 
miles to Cass Station, where we took up a new posi- 
tion along a low ridge, and the Fifth Regiment was 
thrown out as skirmishers. The commands who were 
in line of battle fortified during the night. 



78 History of Henry -CorxTY Commands 

At a council of war held during the early part of 
the night, two of the corps commanders expressed 
the opinion that thev could not hold their positions 
for two hours against Sherman's attack, and it was de- 
cided to retire behind the Etowah River. Early next 
morning the army moved back, and the Fifth soon 
followed, overtaking the command at Cartersville. 
We crossed the river on a pontoon bridge and went 
into bivouac. Here for several days we enjoyed a 
much appreciated rest and transformed the woods 
into an immense laundry. 



In Confederate States Army. 79 

CHAPTER XI. 

BATTLE OF ELLSBURY RIDGE. 

The Federals crossed the Etowah River at three 
places betweii Rome and the Western & Atlantic Rail- 
road bridge, and sent two columns to Dallas and one 
towards Marietta. General Stewart's Division 
checked the latter at New Hope Church. On May 27 
we marched to the left of New Hope about four miles 
and advanced in line of battle, with the Fifth thrown 
out as skirmishers. We met and checked the advance 
of the enemy at Ellsbury Ridge, about a mile east of 
Dallas. There was heavy skirmishing during the day. 
Sergt. Julian Frazier, Company "I,'' was killed lying 
behind a clay root, and B. A. Haguewood, Company 
''A;" George Poyner, Company '^B;" Ben Kendall, 
Company "C;" James Thornton, Company '^E,'' and 
James Rainey of the band, wounded. Lieut. H. L. 
Linderman being the only commissioned officer pres- 
ent in Companies '^A" and '^C," Lieut. E. H. Rennolds 
was assigned to duty with that company temporarily. 
The line of battle fortified during the day, and at night 
the pickets dug ^'picket holes" large enough to hold a 
group of four men each, which practice was ever 
afterward kept up. 

On the night of the 27th all the troops except the 
picket line and Lewis' Brigade, as support, were 
moved to the right. Colonel Lamb was left in com- 
mand of the picket line of Cheatham's Division, and 
Gen. W: B. Bate of the picket line of the whole corps. 



80 History of Henry County Commands 

The skirmishing continued on the 28th and 29th. On 
the former day Gen. Bate, by instruction of Gen. 
Johnston, ordered the picket line supported by Lewis' 
Brigade to advance and feel of the enemy, to deter- 
mine whether or not he was still in force on this part 
of the line. On receiving the order Colonel Lamb 
sent his acting adjutant, Lieut. J. L. Lemonds, to de- 
liver it to subordinate officers. He had proceeded but 
a short distance before the signal gun was fired pre- 
maturely. Lewis' Brigade moved out of their works 
and advanced to the attack. They were met by a mur- 
derous fire of all arms, and after suffering heavy loss, 
retired to the breastworks. The enemy meanwhile 
opened a heavy fire all along the line. A masked bat- 
tery was developed in our front, only 200 yards dis- 
tant, and the discharges of grapeshot were fearful, 
indeed. The firing was too high, however, and our 
men protected or our loss would have been great. 
Herron of Company "C" was killed. The firing lasted 
about half an hour. When Lewis' Brigade retired to 
the works the pickets on that part of the line followed. 
Wlien Lieutenant Rennolds observed the left of Com- 
panies "A" and "C" falling back, he inquired the 
reason, and was told that those to the left had retired. 
He ordered them to only swing back and keep up con- 
nection with the right. Colonel Lamb ordered the 
pickets to return to their posts, and, commencing on 
the left, came along personally supervising the move- 
ment. On reaching Companies "A" and '^C" one of 
the pickets said to him : ^'Look at that Yankee flag. 
Colonel." As he stopped to look, another one said 
to him : ''You had better get into the picket hole ; 



In Confederate States Army. 81 

YOU are in full view of the pickets there." At that mo- 
ment a sharpshooter fired at him and he fell mortally 
wounded. I looked in the direction of the sound of 
the gun, saw the man who had fired, the smoke of his 
gun plainly visible, and heard him cry out : ''I hit 
him ! I hit him !" The men pulled him into the hole, 
and called loudly for the infirmar^^ corps. As the 
litter-bearers came into view the sharpshooters opened 
fire on them, and Barney Daniel was shot through 
the foot. He crawled and limped away. The others, 
with the help of the pickets and by taking a circuitous 
route through the bushes, succeeded in getting Colonel 
Lamb to the rear. He lived only a day or so. The 
regiment suffered a great loss by his death. He was 
one of our bravest and best oflftcers. Henceforth we 
were commanded by field officers of other regiments. 

On the 29th James Owens and B. G. Deets were 
both wounded by pieces of the same ball, which struck 
the barrel of Owens' gun and split. They both ex- 
tracted the pieces with a knife and did not leave their 
posts. 

About 9 p. m. on the 29th we were relieved by Ross' 
Brigade of cavalry, and, after marching four miles, 
rejoined the division. 



82 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER XII. 

BATTLE OF KENNESAW MOUNTAIN. 

Sherman continued to move by the left flank ta 
secure control of the Western & Atlantic Railroad, 
and General Johnston followed the moyement by ex- 
tending his line to the right. In moving by the right 
flank we would sometimes be halted where the posi- 
tion was already fortified, and at others beyond the 
intrenched line, in which case our arms would be 
stacked, skirmishers thrown out, and we would begin 
to fell trees and, placing the logs along the line se- 
lected by the engineers for our rifle pits, would then, 
with pick and spade, dig a trench behind the logs and 
throw the earth in front of them, till, standing in the 
ditch, we could just see over the logs. Above this a 
head-log would be placed, leaving just space enough 
to aim the guns through. 

Skirmishing was kept up continually, we some- 
times driving the enemy back, and sometimes being 
driven ourselves. In one of these skirmishes Corp. 
T. J. Patterson of Company "I" was captured. At 
another time Lieut. N. C. Howard, who was in charge 
of part of the picket line when charged by the enemy's 
skirmishers, found that tliey had been cut off from 
the line of retreat. Lieutenant Howard directed that 
they start off one at a time and proceed cautiously 
to the left, taking advantage of every tree or clump of 
bushes to screen them from view, he being the last to 
leave the post. All escaped safely except Dock Ed- 



In Confederate States Army. 



8a 



wards and George Forrest, who tried to run the 
gauntlet, and the latter was killed and the former 
wounded. On June 15th 
the Nineteenth Tennessee 
Kegiment was sent to 
Maney's Brigade, and the 
Forty-First took its place 
in Strahl's. In extendino 
to the right our line had 
been retired till our left 
was exposed to being 
flanked. General Johnston 
withdrew to a new line ex- 
tending along the crest of 
Kennesaw Mountain and to 
some distance to the right 
and left. This position 
was one of the best fortified 
lines held by the army of 
Tennessee during the continuance of the war. Just 
at the western extremit}^ of the mountain the line 
curved backward and crossed a foothill, on which was 
placed one of our batteries, and then crossed a creek. 
The creek bottom being muddy, the breastworks 
ceased at its edge and began again beyond the creek. 
The Fourth and Fifth Regiments were placed in re- 
serve ready to defend, if need be, this gap in the 
works. 

About 9 a. m. May 27, 1864, the Federals assaulted 
the mountain in several lines of battle. The roar of 
artillery and the continual crash of small arms was 
terrific beyond description. Many of the shells aimed 




LIEUT. N. C. HOWARD. 



84 HISTORY OF Henry County Commands 

at the battery on the hill flew over and fell and ex- 
ploded around ns (as we stood at attention, ready to 
moye at a moment's notice), wounding seyeral in the 
Fourth Kegiment. 

The Federals were repulsed ^nd lost heayily in 
killed, wounded and prisoners. They, however, took 
refuge under the upper terrace of the mountain and 
fortified; in some places not more than fifty yards 
from our works, in others farther away, where they 
remained, keeping up a harrassing fire all day and 
sometimes at night. Just where the mountain dipped 
down at its western end the most destructive fighting 
occurred, and became known as the ''Dead Angle.'' 
Here the enemy's fortified line approached nearest to 
our fortifications. 

On the night after the attack our rifie pits at this 
most exposed point were very much widened and the 
defending force doubled. Our regiment took its turn 
in occupying this dangerous position. On the 29th 
the enemy was allowed, under fiag of truce, to collect 
its dead between the trenches and bury them. On the 
following night, while in the trenches, we slept none, 
only dozed a little, skirmishing being kept up pretty 
well all night, and about midnight a false alarm was 
given, and there was heavy firing for awhile. These 
night alarms came to be known as ''lightning-bug 
fights." Those wlio were trying to snatch a little 
sleep accused those on watch of mistaking the bugs 
for gun flashes and firing at them. On the night of 
the 30th we were in reserve. Another false alarm, 
however, cut short our rest and sleep. Tlie extension 
of Sherman's line to the left ai>ain threatened our 



In Confederate States Army. 85 

communications, and necessitated our withdrawal to 
a new position. And so, on the night of July 2, we 
retired to a position five miles south of Marietta, and 
proceeded to fortify it. By this time we had become 
such experts at this that we only wanted two hours 
to construct fairly good breastworks. On the ad- 
vance of the enemy much shelling and some skirmish- 
ing was indulged in. 

Hea\w details of negroes had thrown up a semi-cir- 
cular fortification around the Chattahoochee railroad 
bridge, and on the night of July 4 we retired within 
this line. On the 5th the author was placed in charge 
of the regimental picket detail. We occupied a posi- 
tion along the edge of a field and set to work to con- 
struct some slight works of rails, etc. The enemy's 
skirmishers soon appeared across the field and fired 
on us, and advanced on either side of the field, com- 
pelling us to retire to the works, and some of us 
barely escaped capture. Private Allen of Company 
"F" and Seth Speight of Company ^'E" were wounded 
and Lazarus Johnson of Company ^^I" killed by a 
shell while bathing in the river. On the Ttli Bush 
Archer of Company ''E'' was wounded, and M. B. 
Alexander of Company '^A" was brought in from the 
picket line with his arm broken by a minnie ball. 

At sundown on the 8th we crossed the Chattahoo- 
chee River on the bridge, and as the Federals had 
thrown forces across on our right, the army soon fol- 
lowed. On Sunday, the 10th, we had preaching by 
Chaplains McCutchen and Hearn for the first time 
for weeks. On the 12th we were placed on picket on 
the river, and in spite of orders against it, the men 



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talked with the Federals and exchanged papers and 
swapped tobacco for coffee, etc. We were relieved 
on the IGth and moved hack to rest. 

At dress parade on the 18th an order from General 
Johnston, annount inu that he had been* relieved by 




GEN. JOE E. JOHNSTON. 



the President and the command turned over to Gen- 
eral Hood, was read. The men turned away from the 
parade ground in silence, with sad faces and downcast 



In Confederate States Army. 87 

eyes. They instinctively realized that the cautious 
policy which General Johnston had pursued in the 
face of overwhelming numbers would be exchanged 
for one of aggressiveness, for which our weakness in 
numbers rendered us totally unprepared. The excel- 
lent morale of the army was destroyed and dread of 
desperate fighting and consequent disaster settled 
down on the hearts of all. 



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CHAPTER XIII. 



BATTLE OF PEACHTREE CREEK. 



Slieriiian having' crossed the Chattahoochee River 
several miles east of the Western & Atlantic Railroad 
bridge, we moved out on the 18th of July to meet him. 
On the 19th we fortified one line, and on the night fol- 
lowing another, and on the 20th we moved to the 
right, and the division formed in two lines, with 
StrahFs Brigade supporting Carter's, and the three 
left companies of the Fifth (^'D'' and ^'I,'' ''F'' and 
"H" and '^G" and ^'K") were thrown out as skirmish- 
ers, under command of 
Capt. B. F. Peoples; Lieut. 
J. L. Lemonds in command 
of Companies ''D" and ^'I." 
About 3 or 4 o'clock p. m: 
we advanced half a mile, 
Lieut. J. W. Howard lead- 
ing the charge, cap in hand, 
leaping the fences like a 
deer. We charged up to 
within about sixty or sev- 
enty-five yards of the 
enemy's works and halted 
in a ravine and sought pro- 
tection behind trees, etc. 
When Carter's Brigade 
came up they halted also, 
.securing all the protection possible, and all the efforts 




LIEUT J. W. HOWARD. 



In Confederate States Army. 



of their officers failed to induce them to go farther. 
A continuous fire was Ivcpt up on both sides till dark. 
A. M. Pinson of Company ^'I'' was killed; Lieuts. J. 
L. Lemonds, J. W. Howard, G. W. Crawford, G. C. 
Camp, H. R. Linderman and S. Kirkpatrick were 
wounded, also Sergt. W. J. Edgar, Corp. I). C. Ban- 
cum and Privates G. R. Alley, T. J. Broach, E. M. 
Doughty, Ed Wallace, S. A. Allen, J. B. Ray and J. 
R. Runiley. Lieut. Camp 
lost an eye, G. R. Alley 
an arm and T. J. Broacii 
and S. A. Allen died of 
their wounds. 

Lieut. Lemonds, thougli 
severely wounded, refused 
to leave his command 
till compelled by loss of 
blood and severe pain to 
do so. ' 

The general attack hav- 
ing failed to accomplish 
anything, we retired after 
nightfall to our works and 
bivouacked, and at 3 a. m. 
on the 21st fell back within 
the fortifications of Atlanta. 




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CHAPTER XIY. 



BATTLE OF ATLANTA. 



Hardee's Corps was aroused before dawu and 
marched through Atlanta and around beyond the De- 
catur road to strike the enemy's left flank. Formed 
line of battle in an old field and loaded the guns. 
While the men were loading Capt. B. F. Peeples paced 
slowly back and forth in rear of his company, with his 
head bowed as if in prayer; then, raising his head, his 
face beaming, he seemed to lose all sense of fear, and 
moved into and through the fight as if unconscious of 

danger. Walker's and 
Cleburne's Divisions 
formed the front line, and, 
advancing, we struck the 
enemy in flank, driving 
them from their half-fin- 
ished rifle pits, killing Gen- 
eral McPherson, passing 
over their dinners, ready 
prepared and steaming hot 
in their camp kettles, 
which was to us a vexa- 
tious taunt, for we were 
very hungry and yet had no 
time to eat. 

Our lines were rectified 
and we moved through the 
woods and down the long slope steadily and in fine 






^^m 




CAPT. B. F. PEEPLES. 



In Confederate States Army. 



91 



order. Capt. A. W. Caldwell was acting as major of 

the Fourth and Fifth, and, as he saw the ranks of the 

Fifth opening towards the left and away from the 

colors, gave his last command, ''Right oblique," with 

his peculiar accent on the 

last syllable. Just then he 

was struck in the hand by 

a ball and given a wound 

not considered dangerous, 

but, complicated with 

fever, in a few days ended 

the career of this ''boy 

captain," one of our best 

officers. 

Emerging from the 
woods into a field, we 
halted in a ravine and re- 
formed our line and were 
then ordered to advance. 
As the regiment reached 
the brow of the hill they 
came into full view of a long line of bluecoats, posted 
hehind a low line of earthworks, who opened a rat- 
tling fire upon us. With no support on the left and 
but little on the right, and seeing their comrades 
falling, the line wavered and sought refuge under the 
brink of the hill. Ensign A. A. Dinwiddle was mor- 
tally wounded, but made good his promise to Ensign 
Jones when receiving the colors at Perry^dlle. Corp. 
F. C. Robertson of Company "F" and Privates J. N. 
Feilds, Company "I;" J. K. P. Lawson, Company 
"K," were killed; John B. House was desperately 




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92 History of Henry County Commands 

wounded and left on the field and died in prison. 
Thirty-one others were also wounded. Names will be 
found in compauT rolls. Four of the wounded wel-e 
officers, and with the six wounded at Peachtree Creek, 
aggregates ten that had been wounded within three 
days. This shows that they were in the places of dan- 
ger, yet they were no braver than the non-commis- 
sioned officers and privates. 

Adjutant AT. D. Kendall, S. A. Miller, Wash Mitch- 
ell, W. L. Kumbley, J. W. Crutchfield, J. N. Fields, 
J. K. P. Lawson, J. G. Hudson, C. S. Williams, L. L. 
Milam and perhaps others advanced to within fifty- 
eight yards of the Federal works, and, finding them- 
selves in great danger and far ahead of their com- 
rades, dropped down in the weeds and waited for the 
coming of the balance of the regiment. Convinced in 
a little while tliat this need not be hoped for, some one 
asked Adjutant Kendall (the only officer present) 
what they had better do. He advised them to retire 
by crawling through the weeds. This they did, leav- 
ing J. N. Fields and J. K. P. Lawson dead where they 
lay. 

The officers, perceiving the futility of further 
efforts to advance, the regiment was formed in the 
ravine and marched out by the left flank, and, coming 
into view of the enemy's line, they received a destruc- 
tive volley, but, increasing their speed to a double- 
quick, were soon out of sight in the woods, and the 
battle was over. D. C. Ball and J. M. Coffman were 
found wounded and helped off the field. We fortified 
during the succeeding night as usual. The next day 
there was an arnustice and the dead exchanged and 



In Confederate States Army. 93 

buried. On the 24tli the enemy retired about half a 
mile in our front and fortified a new line. The meas- 
urement mentioned above was thus rendered possible 
and carefully made. 

One day, about July 28, Lieutenant-Colonel Shan- 
non, Twenty-Fourth Tennessee, in charge of the 
picket line, ordered the pickets to form in line ready to 
advance and see if the Federals were in their works. 
Lieut. John I. Simmons of the Fifth Regiment, who 
was in charge of the picket detail from the Fourth 
and Fifth, formed as ordered and called for volunteer 
scouts. A. H. Lankford and Tip Allen of Company 
"F" responded, and were instructed to reconnoiter 
the Federal position. The undergrowth in front of 
the enemy's fortifications had been cut away, but by 
following a little ravine among some bushes they ap- 
proached ver3^ near the works. Seeing no enemy, they 
began to talk louder, and saw just then two other 
scouts near by. Their voices reached the ears of the 
Federals hid behind the breastworks, and, rising, they 
opened fire, and the two other scouts fell dead and 
Lankford and Allen ran for their lives. Lieutenant 
Simmons became too impatient to either wait for 
Colonel Shannon's orders to advance or the return of 
his scouts, and led his sqaud forward, and, raising the 
"rebel yell," charged the Federal works. The Fed- 
erals, remembering Hardee's impetuous onslaught six 
days previous, and expecting a repetition of it, acted 
on the adage, "He that fights and runs away, may live 
to fight another day," and fled from that part of the 
works. When Lieutenant Simmons and his men 
reached the works, a dead Federal lay just over the 



94 History op Henry County Commands 

rifle pits, with a well-filled knapsack on. Mike Terry 
needed clothes too bad to leave the knapsack there, 
and amid a shower of bullets he leaped over the works 
and secured it. The Federals rallied in an old brick 
house a few hundred yards away, and after a stay of 
perhaps a half hour. Lieutenant Simmons thought it 
best to retire to his picket line. 

On August 25 eT. W. Crutchfield was elected ensign 
and was the last color-bearer of the regiment. No 
command ever had four braver ensigns than the 
Fifth Regiment — William C. Sims, J. B. Jones, A. A. 
Dinwiddle and J. W. Crutchfield. 

We remained on picket on the east of Atlanta till 
August 26, when we moved to the left. All this time 
the enemy had been closing in around Atlanta, shell- 
ing the doomed city and continuing to extend his lines 
to his right. 



Tn Confederate States Army, 95 

CHAPTER XV. 

BATTLE OF JONESBORO. 

i 

Sherman, having extended his lines till he reached 
the West Point Railroad, determined to cut the last 
line of communication with our base of supplies, and, 
leaving one corps to guard the Chattahoochee railroad 
bridge, moved with the main army toward Jonesboro, 
on the Central Railroad. General Hood, not knowing 
how large a part of the Federal army had thus been 
detached, sent General Hardee with his own and Gen. 
S. D. Lee's Corps to drive him back if possible. We 
left East Point just before sundown of August 30 and 
marched till nearly daylight of the 31st, and laid 
down for a short rest. W^ere aroused at break of day 
and moved on, reaching Jonesboro by 10 o'clock a. m. 
We found Bate's Division slightly fortified on the 
west of the town. Cheatham's Division formed on his 
right and Cleburne's next and Lee's Corps on the ex- 
treme right, covering the railroad. Cheatham's Di- 
vision now consisted of the brigades of Gist, Tyler, 
Wright, Yaughan, Maney and Strahl. General Cheat- 
ham was sick and the men noted his absence. Strahl's 
Brigade was posted in an old field just north of the 
town, in rear of Tyler, as a support. 

About 3 pm. the advance was ordered, and the 
Fourth and Fifth moved forward. For some reason 
the balance of the brigade was not formed, and we 
were separated from them. We met a murderous fire 
of shrapnel, grape and rifle balls. Finding the enemy 



96 History of Henky County Commands 

ill heavy force, strongly posted and fortified, and the 
morale of our army being well nigh destroyed by its 
want of confidence in General Hood's military ability 
and discretion, the attack failed at every point and we 
were soon halted and retired to our first position. 
Not, however, till four brave men (Privates Tom 
Barnhill, E. G. Seaton, G. W. Upchurch and Thomas 
Wisehart I were wounded. 

At nightfall we were moved to the left of Tyler and 
spent the night fortifying. The enemy shelled us all 
night at intervals of fifteen minutes. Some one was 
kept on the lookout, and when the flash of the cannon 
was seen he would cry out : '"^Lie down." Every man 
would drop his pick or spade and prostrate himself 
in the ditch until the shell had passed over or ex- 
ploded, and then the work was resumed with vigor. 
We slept very little. 

On the morning of September 1 we were stretched 
out in one rank, extending the line to the left. In the 
evening the enemy made a determined attack on our 
extreme right and were met by a stubborn resistance. 
The firing was very heavy. Beginning on our extreme 
left, brigade after brigade was sent to reinforce our 
right. Strahl's Brigade reached the position about 
sundown. The firing soon ceased, and we were not 
engaged. The overwhelming numbers pressed our 
right back to the railroad, the last train that passed 
beiim fired on bv the enemv's artillerv. 



In Confederate States Army. 97 



CHAPTER XVI. 

LOVE JOY AND PALMETTO. 

During the niglit of September 1 General Hardee 
retired to a new position along a series of hills one 
mile north of Lovejoy Station, and notified General 
Hood, who destroyed all his stores at Atlanta and 
retreated with Stewart's Corps and the Georgia mi- 
litia and formed a junction with Hardee. All night 
long the explosion of the bombs in the magazines at 
Atlanta sounded like a heavy engagement was in 
progress there. 

On the morning of the 2d we fortified the new line. 
Strahl's Brigade occupied a hill just west of the Cen- 
tral Railroad, a battery being placed on the highest 
point. 

About 10 a. m. the author was sent out in charge of 
the regimental picket. We found the usual picket 
holes already dug out. The position of the line of 
battle and picket line was in an open field, the open 
ground extending over a hill in front, in some places 
partially grown up in bushes. The enemy soon ap- 
peared and deployed skirmishers, who advanced to 
top of hill in front and were posted among the bushes. 
Just beyond the railroad a battery was placed in the 
edge of the timber, and soon began throwing shells at 
our works. About an hour before sundown the skir- 
mishers advanced, but were repulsed. The pickets 
were kept on their posts till nightfall of the 3d. 

On the morning of that day the pickets' ammuni- 
7 



98 



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tion was about exliausted. Lieutenant Rennolds 
called for a volunteer to go after a supply. Corp. A. 
H. Lankford, who never shirked duty or danger, 
offered to undertake the perilous trip. He declined to 
leave his gun and accouterments, saying: "I don't 
want to be shot in the back unarmed." The pickets 
were instructed to fire at every Federal who showed 
his head to prevent their accurate firing at Lankford. 
He started up the slope at a pace that would have 
done credit to an antelope. The balls from the 
enemy's pickets tore up the ground around him like 
pebbles thrown into a pond. He reached the works 

safely and was pulled over 
them by his comrades, 
^-<gB|»^ thoroughly exhausted. 

jNp@Hk After resting and having 

Im wt several haversacks filled 

mt WW with ammunition h e 

i k started on the return trip. 

Encumbered with a heavy 
load, his speed was much 
retarded, and again the 
rifle balls flew thick and 
fast around him. But Prov- 
idence decreed his escape, 
and he reached his picket 
hole almost out of 
breatli. W. D. Street 
went on a similar danger- 
ous errand to fill our canteens with water. These 
were two of the bravest deeds that I witnessed during 
the whole war. 



CORP. A. H. LANKFORD 



In Confederate States Army. 99 

About 4 p. m. the Federal battery opened a heavy 
shelling. One shell struck a head log in front of 
Companies ^^B" and "E," cut it in two and turned 
it around over the heads of the men. Lowering their 
pieces, they plowed up the ground between the picket 
holes, and one shell struck the bank of red clay in 
front of a picket hole and piled the earth on top of 
the crouching men. W. D. Street raised up and shook 
a peck of dirt (more or less) from his knapsack. It 
was deemed best by Lieutenant Rennolds to order the 
two picket holes nearest the line of shelling aban- 
doned till the firing had ceased, when they were re- 
occupied. 

On the night of September 5 the enemy retired to 
Atlanta, and on the 6th we advanced to Jonesboro 
and rested from our long and arduous campaign. 
For four months we had been almost continuously 
marching, fortifying, skirmishing and fighting bat- 
tles. Heavy rains set in and much sickness, dysen- 
tery, malarial fever, etc., followed. 

On the 18th of September General Hood marched 
his command to Palmetto, on the Atlanta & West 
Point Railroad, so as to place it between Sherman 
and the cornfields of Alabama and Mississippi, which 
furnished our breadstuffs. 

The continued decimation of all the commands 
rendered it expedient to still further consolidate 
them, though it was called temporary. The Fourth, 
Fifth, Thirty-First, Thirty-Third and Thirty-Eighth 
Tennessee were each reduced to two companies, and 
formed into one regiment. Companies "A,'' ''B,'' 
"C" and '^E" of the Fifth forming one company and 

L.ofC. 



100 History of Henry County Commands 

ujyv uY^^y ^^G,'' ^^H," '^I" and '^K'' another, Col. A. 
J. Keller of the Fourth in command. We no longer 
liad a field officer. The first company was officered 
by Lieuts. T. C. Xeal, F. M. Clark and G. W. Craw- 
ford, and the second by Capt. B. F. Peeples, Lieuts. 
J. P. Tyler, F. M. Clark and E. H. Rennolds. 



In Confederate States Army. 101 

CHAPTER XVII. 

TO SHERMAN^S REAR AND TENNESSEE. 

The next ten days were spent in preparing to move 
on Sherman's communications. On the 29th we 
crossed the Chattahoochee and advanced by forced 
marches to the Western & Atlantic Railroad, reaching 
the vicinity of Big Shanty on the 3d of October, and 
set to work to tear up the railroad, piling up the 
crossties and putting the rails on them, and setting 
the crossties on fire, thus heating the rails and then 
bending them around telegraph poles and stumps. 

French's Division was sent to attempt the capture 
of Sherman's reserve supply of commissary stores, 
consisting of a million rations, enough to feed a hun- 
dred thousand men for two months. While march- 
ing to the railroad we could see the Federal Signal 
Corps on Kennesaw Mountain signaling over our 
heads to Altoona Heights, Sherman's famous message, 
''Hold the fort, for I am coming." 

General French found the fort at Altoona too 
strong for his forces to capture. By the time we had 
torn up the railroad to near Altoona, Sherman's ad- 
vance forces, sent to relieve Altoona, approached and 
we turned our faces to the west as if in retreat, but 
making the circuit of Rome, we returned to the rail- 
road again, striking it at Dalton, the other two corps 
at Calhoun and Resaca. Captured 800 prisoners at 
Dalton, mostly negroes, and put them to work tear- 
ing up the railroad track. Destroyed it to Mill Creek 



102 History of Henry County Commands 

Gap. At noon on the 14tli we were again compelled 
to desist on approach of the Federals. 

We turned again to the west by way of Walker, 
LaFayette and Alpine to Gadsden, Ala., making 
twenty-three miles one day. We were enabled to buy 
apples, potatoes, sorghum, etc., and we had some 
recompense for our hard marching. At Gadsden we 
touched again our railroad communication and ob- 
tained clothing, better rations, etc. On the night of 
October 21 Generals Beauregard, Hood, Lee, Cheat- 
ham, Cleburne, Bates, Clayton and others made us 
encouraging speeches, asserting that we would be able 
to hold Tennessee, whither they said we were going. 
Started again on the 22d, our regiment was in the 
advance on the 24th and fared sumptuously, as we 
had first chance at the luxuries of the country. When 
we halted before sundown a frightened deer ran 
through the camp and was shot by one of the soldiers. 
On the 25th, no other command being ready to move 
when the appointed time arrived, our brigade was 
again given the advance. 

Beached Decatur on the 2Tth and threatened to 
attack the fort there. Protests and muttered threats 
of refusal were heard among the men. Only beef and 
one ear of corn to each man was issued, and on the 
28th an ear of corn constituted the ration. Gnawing 
hunger preyed on us, and parched acorns were greed- 
ily devoured. The mounted officers had to guard their 
horses when fed to prevent the corn from being stolen 
from them. 

About 3 p. m. we withdrew from before Decatur 
and marched west, reaching Tuscumbia on the 31st. 



In Confederate States Army. 103 

Here we rested till November 13; crossed the Tennes- 
see River on a pontoon bridge, and waited another 
week for supplies to be hauled up from Cherokee, the 
temporary terminus of M. & C. R. R., twenty miles 
distant. Started again on the 21st. There was a 
slight fall of snow during the day. 

On the 22d we came in sight of a lar.<>e sign 
stretched across the road, which read: ^Tennessee 
Line." Hearty cheers greeted it, and we Tennes- 
seeans stepped more briskly on our native soil. On the 
23d we guarded the supply train. On the 27th 
reached Columbia, and on the 28th two corps, Cheat- 
ham's and Stewart's, crossed Duck River on a pon- 
toon, six miles above Columbia and marched by dirt 
road to Spring Hill. Part of the way the road ap- 
proached so near the pike, on which the Federals were 
moving, that flankers had to be thrown out, who 
skirmished with the Federal flankers. We reached 
Spring Hill, twenty miles, about sundown, and found 
our advanced troops engaged with a small force of 
the enemy, in a short line of rifle pits. By some mis- 
understanding among the generals no attack was 
made, and night closed in upon us. All through the 
early part of the night the Federals could be heard 
passing along the pike only a few hundred yards away. 
Lieut. N. C. Howard says that he was standing near 
Generals Hood and Strahl and heard General Strahl 
say to General Hood: "If you will let me throw 
my brigade across the pike I will have those fellows 
in the morning or you may take these stars off my 
collar." General Hood replied in a tone too low for 
Lieutenant Howard to understand it. 



104 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER XYIII. 

BATTLE OF FRANKLIN. 

Early on the morning of November 30, 1864, we 
were put in motion on the pike and made a rapid 
march of ten miles, and by noon reached the hills two 
miles south of Franklin. It was 5 o'clock p. m. before 
all the troops had arrived and been placed in position. 
Cleburne's Division was immediately on the right of 
the pike and Cheatlmnrs on the left, in two lines. 
Other divisions extending far to the right and left. 
Strahl's Brigade was in the second line with our (con- 
solidated) regiment next to the pike. 

The fearless General Cheatham was in command of 
the corps, and when he issued General Hood's order 
to advance, he shed tears and said : ''It is a mistake, 
and it is no comfort to me to saj^ we are not responsi- 
ble.'' The long lines of infantry moved steadily and 
grandly forward through the open fields, with the 
precision of trained soldiers on parade. The band of 
the Fifth struck up ""Dixie," and one of Cleburne's 
the ''Bonnie Blue Flag,'' and for once, and only once, 
we went into battle cheered by the sound of martial 
music. It was the grandest sight I ever beheld. 

A battery went galloping up the pike, and, turning 
aside, unlindjered on a little knoll and opened fire, 
as the infantry passed, limbering up and advancing 
again. The enemy's main line was posted in substan- 
tial breastworks, which circled around the edge of the 
town, reaching from the Harpeth River above to the 



In Confederate States Army. 105 

river below. Four or five hundred 3^ards in front of 
this was a line of advanced works, extending for some 
distance to the left of the pike, and occupied b}^ a line 
of infantry. These opened fire on our front line as 
soon as it came within range. Cheatham's first line 
hardly took time to return the fire, but raised the 
'^rebel yelP' and charged at double-quick. When the 
Federals saw them nearing the rifle pits without any 
sign of halting, they abandoned their defenses and fled 
toward the second line of intrenchments. Soon after 
we passed the first line of rifle pits, Capt. B. F. Pee- 
ples said to the writer : ^'Look how thick the Yankees 
are coming.'' I replied: "But they are unarmed. 
Captain." He took a second look, and said : "That's 
so.'' The charging Tennesseeans had overtaken many 
of them, demanded their surrender, ordered them to 
throw down their arms and started them to the rear. 
The fear of being killed or wounded by the fire of their 
own men lent wings to their feet, and they rushed 
through our ranks wherever they could find an open- 
ing. 

By this time our lines had become broken, and the 
men rushed onward regardless of order, converging 
toward the pike till they became solid masses, all 
anxious to reach, as soon as possible, the breastworks, 
where their comrades were engaged in a hand-to-hand 
fight. The first men of our front line reached the 
works, and fought their foes across them, others 
readying the ditch in front scrambled across it, and 
fell d >wn exhausted and out of breath. Others, as 
they cime up, followed their example, till they soon 
extended several vards wide along the outer side of 



106 History of Henry County Commands 

the works. When the Federals saw the second line 
of Confederates (or, more properly, masses of men) 
approaching, the}^ abandoned the position in our im- 
mediate front. Ensign — . — . Flowers of the Fourth 
mounted the parapet and waved his flag. W. D. 
Street, Seth Speight, Jeff Olive and a few others of 
the bravest spirits crossed the entrenchment and ad- 
vanced a few yards, but finding themselves almost sur- 
rounded by Federals and facing a deadly hail of min- 
nie balls they retired behind the entrenchment, but 
kept up a fire on the enemy. In vain did the officers 
urge the men on to cross the breastworks; they were 
too nearly exhausted and the fire was too deadly even 
for the bravest to face. 

Just across the pike, about thirty yards away, the 
works obliqued slightly to the front, and just in their 
rear stood a large cotton gin. A heavy force of Feder- 
als was posted in this building, thus making the 
strength of the defending force much greater here 
than elsewhere. The heavy firing from both the works 
and cotton gin, supplemented by a battery, rendered 
it utterly impossible for Cleburne's Division to carry 
the position, though composed of as brave men as were 
ever enlisted. Many of this heroic band, including 
their indomitable Irish leader, went down before the 
murderous fire, grape and canister aiding the rifles 
in the deadly work. Those who escaped finally re- 
tired. This heavy force then turned their fire upon 
Cheatham's Division, across the pike. Those who 
were nearest the works fired at the Federals wherever 
seen and passed their guns back to their comrades to 
be reloaded. General Strahl and other officers as- 



In Confederate States Army. 



107 



sistecl iu passing the guns back and forth. General 
Strahl was severely wounded, and while some of his 
men were trying to remove him, was struck in the 
head by a minnie ball 
and killed. 

A braver or more 
gallant or chivalric 
man never poured 
out his blood in his 
country's cause. For 
three or four hours 
the brave men of 
Cheatham's Division 
fought in the face of 
death. Seeing their 
comrades killed or 
wounded in great 
numbers, those that 
had escaped the 
deadly fire began, 
singly and in groups, 
to seek safety in the 
rear, until after 
awhile most of them 




BRIG. -GEN. O. F. STRAHL. 



When the writer 
saw that all the men able to travel, on his right, front 
and rear, and many to his left, were gone, he, too, 
thought it time to seek safety in flight. The enemy 
in and around the cotton gin were firing heavy volleys 
at every man, and group of men, whom they could dis- 
cern in the smoky moonlight. Watching for a lull in 



108 History of Henry County Commands 

the firing, 1 started at a rapid gait, but had not gone 
more than fifty yards before one of the heaviest vol- 
leys was fired, and the whizzing balls flew thicker 
than I had ever heard them. My speed was increased 
to the highest possible limit, but several more volleys 
were fired before reaching the enemy's first line of 
works, to say nothing of the continued whirr of min- 
nies in lesser numbers. Reaching the rifle pits, I fell 
over the embankment utterly exhausted. How any 
one could escape in such a hail of rifle balls is most 
wonderful. The god of battles only could direct the 
steps of anyone safely through such death-dealing mis- 
siles. Others had similar experiences. The enemy 
evacuated the works and town before morning, and 
retired to Nashville. Some of the Confederates who 
had remained close under the protection of the breast- 
works, when the firing ceased, crept out and cau- 
tiously followed them through the town. 

Next morning we found the dead lying so thick that 
we could have walked on them without stepping on 
the ground, a sight I never saw elsewhere. Ex-Gov- 
ernor Porter says: ^^I looked down upon the up- 
turned faces of 1,000 dead Tennesseeans." Our killed 
were, W. J. Edgar and W. W. Ridgeway. Lieut. N. 
C. Howard, AY. 1). Hendricks, — . — . Ellis and others 
wei*e wounded. The writer found himself the only 
one of his original company present for duty. Cap- 
tain Johnston and Lieutenant Marsh of General 
StrahPs staff were killed on their horses as they rode 
up to the works. Franklin was the Gettysburg of the 
West. 

We spent the day after the battle in burying the' 



In Confederate States Army. 109 

dead and caring for the wounded. On the second day 
we buried the Federal dead, and at 9 a. m. took up 
our line of march toward Nashville, marching seven- 
teen miles. 



110 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER XIX. 

BATTLE OF NASHVILLE. 

s 

From December 3 to 15 we remained in front of 
Xashville fortifying, picketing and moving from place 
to place. Part of the time the weather was quite se- 
vere, with a smart fall of snow, and as wood was 
scarce we suffered a good deal with cold. We burned 
Mrs. Aaron V. Brown's cedar rails that cost Governor 
Brown 10 cents each. At first our rations were quite 
short and rather rough, but later on the Nash- 
ville & Decatur Railroad, having been patched up and 
some captured trains brought into use, they became 
better. The enemy annoyed us a* good deal by almost 
continual shelling. 

December 15 the enemy turned our left flank by 
passing between it and the river, and on the night fol- 
lowing General Hood retired to a new line across the 
Franklin and Granny White pikes and fortified it. 
This line stretched across open cornfields to a ridge on 
the left, and then turned back almost at right angles 
along this ridge. About a quarter of a mile from this 
angle, in a depression of the ridge, the remnant of 
StrahPs Brigade was posted. It was now in command 
of Col. A. J. Kellar of the Fourth Tennessee, and 
Lieut.-Col. L. W. Finley of the Fourth commanded 
the consolidated regiment. 

The writer was put in charge of the regimental 
picket line about daylight, and was posted in some 
woodland about 200 vards in front of the fortified line 



In Confederate States Army, 111 

and protected ourselves by trees and such other ob- 
jects as were available. The enemy drove back our 
cavalry on the extreme left, and we could tell by the 
sound of the firing that they were gradually getting 
into our rear. 

They concentrated an artillery fire on the breast- 
works occupied by Finley's Florida Brigade and 
partly demolished them, driving the men out, and 
then about 4 p. m. charged with several lines of bat- 
tle. The other troops, seeing Finley's troops were 
falling back, lifted from the works and streamed 
across the fields, intent only on making sure that they 
would not spend the winter in a Federal prison. The 
pickets to our right were driven in, and as we were 
thus flanked on both sides, I ordered the picket line 
to retire. As I mounted the breastworks and looked 
across the valley and noted that as far as I could see 
our troops were in retreat, I said to Capt. B. F. Pee- 
ples, who I met just behind the works : ''If you ever 
expect to get out of here, it is time you were going. 
Look yonder," pointing to the fleeing Confederates. 
He glanced in the direction indicated and ordered a 
retreat. At the same time Lietuenant-Colonel Fin- 
ley's attention was called to the situation and ordered 
the regiment to retire. And now began a race for 
liberty between the enclosing wings of the Federals. 
The ground was just thawing out of a smart freeze, 
and the sticky mud which, with the crabgrass, ad- 
hered to our shoes and soon loaded us as with weights, 
and fast progress was impossible, and so ever and 
anon we had to stop and kick off these impediments. 
To avoid a high ridge in our rear it was necessary to 



112 History of Henry County Commands 

take such a direction as brought us continually nearer 
the pursuing enemy in converging lines. Soon the 
foremost of our pursuers came within range of the 
fleeing Confederates and thev kept up a desultory fire 
on them as they ran. Some of the bolder Confederates 
would occasionally stop and fire back at tliem and 
then continue their retreat. We soon came to a gap 
in the ridge, through which ran a road, and through 
this gap the demoralized Confederates poured to the 
rear. Lieutenant-Colonel Finley took a stand in the 
gap, and, with pistol in hand, tried, by ordering and 
threatening, to induce the men to halt and make a 
stand, but the sound of rifies coming nearer and nearer 
to the line of retreat, rendered it impossible to en- 
thuse any but the bravest, and soon it was found best 
to resume the retreat: The road we were traveling 
led into the pike at an acute angle, but upon nearing 
this point it was found that the rear of those troops 
using the pike as a line of retreat was just passing and 
a Federal battery was throwing shells into the fleeing 
fugitives, and so we had to change our direction and 
enter the pike further on. Night soon closed in upon 
us, and after marching a few miles the different com- 
mands began to halt and bivouac, the passing men con- 
tinually calling out : ''Where is such and such a divi- 
sion?" or "Such and such a brigade?" By this means 
they were most of them able to locate their commands. 
Next morning as the march was resumed it was a sad 
sight to see how few men formed on the colors of the 
different regiments. Our loss was mainly confined to 
missing, but tliey comprised about half the regiment. 
Joe J. Adams of the One Hundred and Fiftv-Fourth 



In Confederate States Army. 113 

Tennessee relates that the prisoners were huddled in 
an old rock quarry at Nashville, without protec- 
tion or wood in a freezing rain, and next morning him- 
self and twenty-one others, with frozen hands and feet, 
had to be hauled to the penitentiary on wagons. 

At Columbia General Hood organized a provisional 
division under Gen. John C. Brown as a rearguard to 
assist General Forrest. No higher compliment could 
be paid to Henry County's gallant soldiery that that 
both the Fifth and Forty- Sixth Tennessee were se- 
lected to form part of this heroic band, that day and 
night stood as a stone wall between the remnant of 
Hood's army and their victorious pursuers. Several 
times they halted, faced the enemy and dealt him a 
blow that caused him to recoil and be careful how he 
ventured too near these tried and true soldiers of a 
^^Lost Cause." General Brown's report speaks in the 
highest praise of their bravery, endurance, discipline 
and patience in suffering. 



114 History of Henry County Commands 
CHAPTER XX. 

THE CONFEDERACY'S COLLAPSE. 

We readied Corinth, Miss., on our retreat from Ten- 
nessee January 2, 1865. We found Lieut. J. L. Le- 
nionds awaiting us with wagon loads of clothing, etc. 
which he had collected in Henry County for us. As 
the boxes were opened and the names of the fortunate 
ones were called out, many of us were made happy 
by the sight of warm clothing, so sadly needed, and 
made doubly valuable because we knew that the hands 
of loved mothers, sisters and wives had toiled to pre- 
pare it for us. But some who were less fortunate 
looked on with longing, if not with envious eyes. 

Nearly all the West Tennessee soldiers were granted 
thirty days' furlough, and in groups, small and large, 
we turned our steps homeward. The country through 
which we passed had so long been in an unsettled con- 
dition, and been held alternately by both belligerents, 
that we were often at a loss to know whether those 
we met were friends or foes. However, we failed to 
meet any bushwhackers, and all reached home safely. 
Here we met a royal reception and were treated like 
lords. Dinners and parties were the order of the 
day, and mothers, sisters and sweethearts vied with 
each other in making our stay pleasant. But, alas! 
all earthly pleasure must have an end, and all too 
soon we must turn our faces toward the post of duty 
and say farewell to loved ones. So, some on foot and 
some on such ponies as our relatives and friends 



In Confederate States Army. 115 

could furnish us, we started for our place of rendez- 
vous (West Point, Miss.). 

Some thought the fate of the Confederacy already 
sealed and remained at home. Thirty or forty assem- 
bled at Corinth, and, finding that the army had gone 
to North Carolina, returned home. Others stopped 
with Forrest's Cavalry, in Mississippi. Others still 
pushed on to join our comrades, who were again facing 
our old enemies under Sherman. We went by rail to 
Selma, by steamer to Montgomery, by rail to Sparta, 
Ga., walked to Barnett, and by rail to Augusta. A 
"camp detention" had been formed at Hamburg, S. C, 
of which John R. Peoples was adjutant. Here we 
were organized into provisional companies and regi- 
ments for discipline, convenience in issuing rations 
and for order in marching, and a sufiflciency of officers 
assigned to these. Capt. B. F. Peeples commanded a 
company and the other officers of the Fifth were 
supernumeraries. 

The "provisional brigade" marched from Hamburg 
to Chester and again boarded the cars, going to Ral- 
eigh, and at Smithville rejoined the army and rejoiced 
to find it again under Gen. Joe Johnston, who was re- 
treating, still followed by his old foe. General Sher- 
man. We continued to retreat to Greensboro, and 
here we were permanently consolidated with other 
commands under a general law recently enacted by 
the Confederate Congress. The Fourth and Fifth 
Regiments formed one company. The captain and sec- 
ond lieutenant were selected from the Fourth, and 
First Lieut. A. W. Sidebottom from the Fifth, the 
latter being technically the last officer of the old regi- 



116 History of Henry County Commands 

ment. Lieutenant Sidebottom was returning from 
prison and did not reach the regiment in time to as- 
sume command. But the doom of the Confederacy 
was already sealed, and as Sherman and Grant closed 
in around the outnumbered, but still unconquered, 
remnant of the Army of Tennessee, reinforced by the 
coast garrisons, General Johnston saw the futility of 
further resistance and surrendered his army. 

I have never witnessed such a scene as that which 
presented itself, when it became fully known that we 
were to lay down our arms. All phases of human feel- 
ing were exhibited. Some raved and swore that they 
would never submit to it. Some paced back and forth 
like caged lions. Some seated themselves on logs and 
buried their faces in their hands. Some wept like 
<!hildren, and the faces of others took on a look of 
stolid and stoical submission, and others still looked 
on at this unusual exhibition of emotions with feel- 
ings of wonder and astonishment. 

Of the 1,300 men who followed the flag of the regi- 
ment to the front only thirty stood under its folds at 
the last sad scene of all. We were glad that our colors 
had never been captured, and we felt that our fallen 
comrades who had shed their blood on fifteen battle- 
fields and numerous skirmishes were at least spared 
the mortification of seeing it surrendered to the foe 
who had never been able to capture it on the battle- 
field. The following are the names of the fortunate 
ones who had lived to share all the regiment's cam- 
paigns : 

Capt. B. F. Peeples, Company "I." 

Adjutant W. D. Kendall. 



In Confederate States Army. H'^ 

Ensign John W.Crutchfield. 
First Lieut. S. W. Alexander, Company E.^ 
First Lieut. James P. Tyler, Company K.^^ 
Second Lieut. N. C. Howard, fompanyj^ ^^ 
Second Lieut. Thomas C.Neal, Company B. 

Second Lieut. Edwin H. Rennolds Company ^:^-,. 
Second Lieut. George W. ^^a^^^^^' ^^^^^^^^^ .^n 
Second Lieut. Robert P. Andrews, Company K. 
Second Lieut. Sam J. Kirkpatrick, Company K. 
OrdnancQ Sergt. J. Peter Kendall. 
Sergt. Jeff T. Olive, Company ''E." ^^ 
Sergt. William G. Trent, Company E. 
Sergt. Al G. Brevard, Company '^K." ^^ 
Sergt. Richard B. Barns, Company K. 
Corp. Rufus B. Olive, Company ''A." 
Corp. John K. Breast, Company '^K.'' ^^ 
Private William D. Street, Company A 
Private George W. Upchurch, Company A. 
Private T. M. Jones, Company '^B." ^^ 

Private John M. Thompson, Company ''B. ^^ 
Private W. Perry Alexander, Company '^C. 
Private Robert C. Rogers, Company "D." 
Private Dan W. Jackson, Company ^'G.'^ 
Private W. W. Smith, Company "G.'^^ 
Private G. M. Herring, Company "K." 
Private J. T. Sawyer, Company ''K.''^ 
Private Dan Sawyer, Company ^'K.''^^ 
Private Charlie Trout, Company ''K.'' 
(I use here the company letters of the reorganiza- 
tion at Corinth, as they were used for three years. ) 

\11 the officers of the regiment who were present 
havin- been made supernumeraries by the permanent 



118 History of Henuy County Commands 

consolidation, decided not to await the formalities of 
the actual surrender, but having done all they could 
do, would at once return home, obtained permits from 
their superior officers and started for their distant 
homes. Stoneman's raiders, having burned several 
bridges in North Carolina, trains were irregular and 
transfers often necessary. We walked from Black- 
stock (near Chester) to Abbeville, S. C. Then by 
rail to Newberry, walked to Washington, Ga., and by 
rail to Augusta, Ga., where we found Federal officers 
who were authorized to parole us. Then by rail to 
Atlanta, where we found officers sent by General 
Wilson from Macon, who said that our paroles were 
not good and paroled us again. It seemed very strange 
to see two companies of cavalry holding the city, 
which Sherman's army failed to capture for so long a 
time, while thousands of Confederates were passing 
through the city ( or the piles of bricks where the city 
once stood), and yet making no resistance to their 
sometime foes. 

We walked a hundred miles to Dalton, and as we 
passed over the railroad we destroyed in October pre- 
vious, we sincerely wished it had not been done. At 
Dalton we took a train to Chattanooga, where we 
were gratuitously furnished an escort with fixed bayo- 
nets and sent by rail to Nashville. We were marched 
with many others up to the provost marshal's office 
and told that our paroles would avail nothing, and 
that we must take an oath of allegiance to the United 
States Government or go to prison. So we stood up 
under the ''Stars and Stripes" we had so long been 
fighting and forswore all allegiance to our loved 



In Confederate States Army. 119 

Confederacy. We spent a night in an enclosure ad- 
joining the "penitentiary." A slice of "wasp nest" 
and a small one of pickled pork was doled out to us. 
Next morning we bade goodby to Lieutenants Tyler, 
Andrews and Kirkpatrick, who went by steamer to 




LIEUT. -COL. LUKE W. FINLEY. 



Hickman, Kj.y took a train to Johnsonville, hired a 
man to put us over the river and scattered to our 
homes to carrv the sad news of the downfall of our 



120 History of Henry County Commands 

new republic and to take up our duties again as citi- 
zens. 

The nineteen non-commissioned officers and privates 
who remained at their posts laid down their arms and, 
with sad hearts, turned their faces and footsteps to the 
West. The new regiment, of which the Fifth formed 
a part, was composed of the remnants of the Fourth, 
Fifth, Nineteenth, Twenty-Fourth, Thirty-First, Thir- 
ty-Third, Thirty-Fifth, Thirty-Eighth and Forty-First 
Tennessee Regiments and Fifth Confederate Regi- 
ment. Col. James D. Tillman of the Forty-First, 
Lieut.-Col. Luke W. Finley of the Fourth and Maj. C. 
S. Deakin of the — Regiment were assigned as field 
officers. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Finley writes thus of their 
homeward march : '^Westward we took up our line 
of march. Our route lay through Asheville, N. C. 

* * * As I saw them marching route-step home, 
serious, patient, thoughtful, I could not but recall 
their valor on many a field. * * * On many an 
occasion, as I stood at the head of that column and 
looked down its ranks, I was filled with joy at their 
presence, and thought of their valor on many a field. 

* * * As we approached Asheville I thought of 
the loyalty of her citizens. * * * As we neared 
the city I said to my senior in command: 'Let us un- 
furl the flag once more; let Asheville's mothers and 
daughters see the battle flag waving over the sons of 
Tennessee.' A distinguished Federal soldier had 
taken charge of the city. My senior said: 'No, it 
might give offense.' After proceeding some distance 
he turned to me and said: 'I wish von would take 



In Confederate States Army. 121 

command of the regiment. I desire to see a friend on 
business some two miles out.' After his departure on 
that beautiful May morning in 1865, I said to the en- 
sign: ^Unfurl that flag.' 

" ^Unfurl that flag/ and every startled man 
Fell into line ; firm soldierly had sprung. 

^'The listless look was gone ; the languid eye 
Now flashed again with patriotic flame ; 

The heads just bowed were proudly held erect, 
And warriors hearkened as the orders came. 

"Now, those who bore their arms passed swiftly on, 
And ranked themselves unbidden at the front ; 

While step to step, a ragged wall of gray. 

They marched as soldiers from the battle brunt. 

^ 

"And ^Dixie' wakes the echoes of the hills 
With stirring notes, as spirited and true 

As when at first Confederates, brave and strong. 
Rung out her changes as they met the blue. 

"j&e slipped the covering off the flag. At the com- 
mand, ^Attention I' that band of men walked erect, 
and the ensign lifted his colors. In a moment you 
could see the effect on that body who had so often 
stood under its folds in the hour of battle. Like the 
white cockade mounted in the sight of the followers 
of Bri.ie, the effect was electrical; the eye was 
kindlel, the soul filled, and the boys, with sturdy 
tread, followed the ensign, animated by the simple 



122 History of Henry County Commands 

strains of fife and drum. *Did they, like birds in 
spring, show gladness and become melodious, or was 
it the electric spark of sympathy and the heroic sense 
of fidelity to their cause?' The fifer and drummer 
took their places at the head of the colunm and struck 
up a Southern air as we entered the ctiy. Those with 
guns took their places at the head of the column fol- 
lowing the music — the colors held by the ensign, with 
the color-guards around it — the others following in 
the line of march. As we entered Asheville, at the 
command, 'Right shoulder, shift arms,' the command, 
with heads erect, with wills unbowed, with an energy 
of movement instinct with life and love of liberty, 
moved forward along the various streets from its 
eastern limit to its western slope. Strangely, but 
nevertheless in truth, there were some soldiers in 
Federal uniform that did not manifest joy as we 
passed, but from every cottage and every residence, 
from every door and every window waved a kerchief. 
Here and there, perhaps, tears fell as the inmates of 
that home thought of an unburied son or brother upon 
the fields of Virginia. At any rate, the heart of Ashe- 
ville was touched and showed its sympathy. 

"We passed the academic grounds. Along the fence 
in its entire front the girls stood admiring and won- 
dering at the approaching line. On a vacant lot, on 
the opposite side of the street, stood Clingman, Vance, 
and others, noted soldiers and citizens of Asheville. 
As the battalion approached and reached the line of 
girls, the nearest said : ^Let me touch that flag.' She 
caught it and kissed it, and the next did likewise, and 
as the ensign passed, everyone in that long line paid 



In Confederate States Army. 123 

this tribute of love and sympathy to the flag borne by 
the Confederates — the workmanship of ladies of Ala- 
bama's capital. 

"With reverence they kissed the flag in tears, 
As, one by one, each maiden, with bowed head, 

Came softly forward, while their hallowed thoughts 
Had ushered in the presence of the dead. 

"And so the story of the buried love 

Will live through time, sped on from tongue to 
tongue. 
With harps attuned unto the heart's own chord. 

That last unfurling shall be softly sung. 

"Westward and homeward we moved and passed 
along down by the banks of the French Broad, think- 
ing of our homes, and the singular romance became a 
memory." 

After marching overland to Knoxville this un- 
daunted little band, less than a score, "broke ranks'' 
for the last time, and, boarding the cars, were trans- 
ported to Johnsonville, and, separating, returned to 
their homes after four years of absence, and took up 
again the peaceful avocations of life. Nevermore will 
they meet on earth. May they, when the last "tattoo" 
is sounded, lie down amid friends, honored and loved, 
and when Gabriel shall, with his trumpet, call the 
sleeping nations to respond to eternity's "reveille," 
may all of them receive the Master's plaudit, "Well 
done, good and faithful servants," and "enter in 
through the gates into the city." 
So mote it be. 



124 History of Henry County Commands 



ROLL OF FIFTH REGIMENT, TENNESSEE 
INFANTRY. 

FIELD^ STAFF AND BAND. 

CoL William E. Travis; resigned on account of ill 
health May, 1862, and served as a recruiting officer. 

Lt.-Col. John D. C. Atkins; elected to Congress 
August, 1861, and resigned ; served in Congress until 
the Government failed. 

Maj. William C. Swor; elected lieutenant colonel 
at reorganization; resigned 1863, and served as 
recruiting officer. 

Adj. Calvin D. Venable; elected lieutenant colonel 
August, 1861, and colonel at reorganization; died 
December, 1862. 

Surgeon Dr. R. T. Clark ; resigned August, 1861. 

Asst. Surg. Dr. F. F. Porter ; captured at Jackson, 
Tenn., April, 1862 ; resigned ; afterward served as sur- 
geon of General Lyons' command. 

Commissary Samuel E. Barbee; promoted to Di- 
vision Commissary, and served through the war. 

Quartermaster O. D. Edwards; resigned 1861. 

Chaplain, Rev. E. E. Hamilton ; resigned May, 1862. 

Sergt. Maj. Hugh P. Dunlap; transferred to One 
Hundred and Fifty-Fourth and afterward in Tenth 
Kentucky Cavalry, and captured on Morgan's raid 
in Ohio, and carried to Charleston and put under 
fire. 

Band Leader Chas. P. Daniel ; discharged, ill health. 

Band Leader Wm. F. Cooper; served through war. 



In Confederate States Army. 125 

Musician Johnnie Ballard; discharged, under age. 

Musician W. P. Boyd; served through the war. 

Musician W. H. (Barney) Daniel; wounded at 
Ellsbury Ridge; served through the war. 

Musician J. J. Daniel ; served through the war. 

Musician G. D. (Doodle) Daniel; served through 
the war. 

Musician Wash. B. Mitchell ; wounded and captured 
at Atlanta. 

Musician John S. Orr; wounded at Rocky Face 
Ridge; served through the war. 

Musician Pack R. Orr ; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge; 
served through the war. 

Musician James B. Rainey; wounded at Ellsbury 
Ridge, and died at Atlanta, August, 1864. 

Musician Jule Wells ; served through the war. 

Musician James M.. Wright; served through the 
war. 

Musician Joe Moore; served through the war. 



Roll of Company "A," Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 

Capt. B. B. Bunch, Jr.; re-elected at reorganiza- 
tion; promoted to major October, 1863; wounded at 
Resaca; captured at hospital, Oxford, Ga., July, 1864; 
served through the war. 

First Lieut. James M. Trousdale , discharged at re- 
organization. 



126 History of Henry County Commands 

Second Lieut. George W. McNutt; discharged; ill 
health, November 16, 1861. 

Third Lieut. Thomas M. White; discharged at re- 
organization. 

First Sergt. Thomas Wynns; discharged, over age. 

Second Sergt. A. W. Sidebottom; promoted to sec- 
ond lieutenant November 16, 1861; re-elected at re- 
organization; promoted to first lieutenant October, 
1863; wounded at Resaca; captured at hospital, Ox- 
ford, Ga., July, 1864; served through the v^ar. 

Third Sergt. William F. Chilcutt; wounded at Shi- 
loh, and afterwards served in cavalry. 

W. L. Allen; died at hospital, July, 1862. 

G. R. Alley; wounded at Shiloh and Peachtree 
Creek ; lost an arm and discharged. 

W. H. Allen. 

John Aycuff; served through the war. 

Clark Bailey. 

L. J. Bevil ; died at hospital, May, 1862. 

W. R. Bevil. 

Joseph Blakemore. 

J. B. Bond ; died at Columbus, Ky. 

John W. Bradshaw; died at hospital, Memphis, 
April 6, 1861. 

William Bradshaw; died at Atlanta, April 13, 
1863. 

J. A. Bucy; killed at Shiloh. 

J. M. Bucy. 

M. V. Burton ; served through the war. 

R. A. Burton; wounded at Chickamauga, and de- 
tailed as mail carrier to Henry County. 

S. A. Burton. 



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127 



W. A. Burton. 

W. F. Caldwell ; died at Tupelo, July 16, 1862. 

A. W. Christenberry ; joined the Federals. 

D. W. Christenberry ; died at home, August 4, 1861. 
M. y. Crouch; died at Shelbyville, Tenn., March 

26, 1863. 

T. J. Crouch ; died at home August 15, 1861. 
W. R. Crouch ; served through the war. 
J. W. Dalton. 
Jacob Dice ; served through the war. 

E. M. Edgar. 

W. J. Edgar ; wounded at Atlanta ; killed at Frank- 
lin. 

W. R. Elkins; killed at Shiloh. 

Thomas Finley ; died at home during the war. 

Thomas M. Freeland; died at hospital, June 3, 
1862. 

J. H. Gibson; died at 
Madrid Bend, 1862. 

W. A. Gibson; died at 
home, August 7, 1861. 

W. L. Grainger; died at 
Columbus, Ky. 

E. M. Guill ; wounded at 
Shiloh. 

LaFayette Guill ; wound- 
ed at Shiloh. 

T. B. Guill; wounded on 
picket at Corinth, and died 
at hospital, June 12, 1862. 

B. A. Haguewood ; shot g. a. haguewood. 
through with ramrod at 
Perry ville; served through the war. 




128 History of Henry County Commands 

T. N. Hill. 

R. W. Holt ; served through the war. 
R. W. Jackson. 

Crofford Key; wounded at Shiloh. 
J. P. King. 

Robert N. King ; died at home, August 14, 1861. 
S. N. King. 
Michael Manning. 
John Mar gain. 

L. L. McChristian; served through the war. 
A. J. Meacham ; killed at Shiloh. 
James M. Mitchell; wounded at Shiloh; (color 
guard. ) 

Polk Mitchell ; served through the war. 
W. A. Moody; died at Tupelo, Miss., July 15, 1862. 
G. y. Xairon ; died at Memphis, March, 1862. 
Hampton Nairon ; died at home. 

E. H. Neese ; died at home, August 8, 1861. 

F. M. Oliver ; died at Chattanooga, August 21, 1863. 
Rans Oliver; killed at Perryville. 

I. W. Perry; died at Chattanooga, November 12, 
1862. 

J. W. Perry ; killed at Shiloh. 

W. W. Perry ; died at Union City, July 15, 1861. 

Levi Pfleuger; served through the war. 

T. Jeff Pfleuger; died at home, August 5, 1861. 

Thomas G. Randle; died at Greenville, Ala., June, 
1863. 

T. K. Ratteree. 

Robert Rigsby. 

L. T. Shults; killed at Shiloh. 



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Abram Simmons; captured at Mission Ridge; 
served through the war. 

W. S. Simmons; died at LaGrange, Tenn., May 
20, 1862. 

G. W. Swor; wounded at Perrwille; lost an arm; 
discharged. 

Alex Trousdale. 

Felix Trousdale. 

F. G. Thompson ; died at hospital, July, 1862. " 

John J. Thompson ; wounded at Sliiloh ; discharged. 

Sam. W. Thompson; elected first sergeant at reor- 
ganization; wounded at Perryville; served through 
the war. 

George W. Upchurch; served through the war. 

J. W. Vaughan; wounded at Shiloh and died. 

Needham Whitfield; killed at Shiloh. 

Charles S. Williams ; served through the war. 

R. W. Williams; served through the war. 

Sol. Williams. 

L. G. Wilson ; died at Union City, August 3, 1861. 

Fed Wlmberly; wounded at Perryville and Mis- 
sion Ridge; served through the war. 

J. W. Worsham; died at hospital, July, 1862. 

Jesse S. Wynns; died at Columbus, Miss., July 
5, 1862. 



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Roll of Company *'B," Fifth Tennessee Regiment^ 
Infantry. 

Capt. J. H. Long; discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. Henry T. Bowman; elected captain at 
reorganization; detached and served as major of 
Twentieth Tennessee CavalrT. 

Second Lieut. W. D. Kendall; appointed adjutant 
at reorganization; served through the war; present 
at surrender. 

Third Lieut. Holman Fuqua; discharged at reor- 
ganization; appointed on post duty in north Ala- 
bama, and killed in his office. 

First Sergt. David Holly; discharged under con- 
script law. 

Second Sergt. T. J. Etheridge; served one year. 

Fourth Sergt. W. Fletchei; Etheridge; wounded at 
Shiloh; served in Company ^'G/' Seventh Tennessee 
Cavalry. 

Fifth Sergt. — . — . ; killed at Shiloh. 

First Corp. John I. Simmons; elected lieutenant 
at reorganization ; served through the war. 

Second Sergt. J. Cardwell Wilson ; elected lieuten- 
ant at reorganization; wounded at Perrwille; de- 
tached at consolidation; served as captain Com- 
pany "F/' Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry ; killed at Ft. 
Pillow. 

Fourth Sergt. Wm. P. Edmonds; served through 
the war. * 

Ricliard Atkins; served through the war. 

T. W. Barnhill; wounded at Jonesboro; served 
through the war. 



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Al. A. Barns; discharged, ill health. 

C. L. Barns ; transferred to cavalry and died. 

K. W. Barns; wounded at Shiloh; served one year. 

D. C. Baucum ; wounded at Peachtree Creek ; served 
through the war. 

Charlie Bowman; died April 2, 1862. 

Sam Bowman; discharged, ill health. 

Joe Brannon. 

Jessee Buchanan; served three years. 

Thos. Buchanan ; served three years. 

Wm. R. Calloway; served through the war. 

J. W. Carmack. 

E. E. Counsel; served through the war. 
J. W. Darnell. 

T. L. Easley ; served two years. 

H. F. French ; died May 18, 1862. 

J. C. Hastings; served one year. 

W. H. Hastings; served one year. 

David Hawley. 

L. Hester; wounded at Shiloh by gun bursting in 
his hands; served through the war. 

Pies. Hester. 

W. H. Holliday; served two years. 

W. C. Holliday; served two years. 

John Hill; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
died during the war. 

Dan. W. Jackson; wounded at Atlanta; served- 
through the war. 

Robert Jackson ; served through the war. 

Allen Jones; served through the war. 

T. J. Jones; transferred to cavalry. 

James Kendall; discharged, ill health. 



132 History of Henry County Commands 

J. F. Kendall ; served through the war. 

J. Peter Kendall; appointed ordnance sergeant; 
served through the war. 

Frank Kendall; served one year. 

Sam Kendall; captured and lost sight of. 

Luke M. Lee; served one year. 

J. M. Mallor}^; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Mike Manning; discharged. 

W. S. Markham; served one year. 

Jack Markham ; served one year. 

Jarrett McClure; served three years. 

W. D. McClure; died in 1861. 

J. A. McFarland; died July 20, 1861. 

J. D. McFarland ; died during the war. 

John W. McFarland; discharged, ill health. 

L. H. Xance; discharged, ill health; re-enlisted in 
Company ''B," Forty-Sixth Tennessee. 

W. C. Norred; wounded at Corinth; served one 
year. 

G. W. Norred ; discharged, ill health. 

John Phillips; killed. 

C. F. Potts; wounded at Kesaca and disabled, but 
served through the war; one year in Forty- Sixth 
Tennessee. 

J. M. Handle. 

Frank M. Kails ; wounded ; served through the war. 

Sam H. Ralls; served through the war. 

W. H. Rhodes; served a year or more. 

J. W. Robertson ; discharged , over age. 

John R. Rumbley; wounded at Peachtree Creek; 
served through the war. 

Wm. L. Rumbly ; wounded at Atlanta and died. 



In Confederate States Army. 133 

Marshall Samford; wounded in Georgia; served 
through the war. 

W. H. Simmons ; served through the war. 

J. Frank Smith; discharged, disability of eye. 

J. Sydney Smith. 

W. W. Smith; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

Kobert Tevis ; killed at Shiloh. 

Jno. T. Turbeville; killed at Shiloh. 

Frank M. Upchurch ; served two or three years. 

J. T. Upchurch ; died in 1861. 

James Venable ; served three and a half j^ears. 

Joe S. Venable ; died of measles, July 30, 1861. 

W. G. Ward ; served one year. 

B. L. Wisehart; wounded at Jonesboro, losing an 
arm. 

A. C. Wright; discharged. 

J. W. Wvnns. 



Roll of Company ^'C," Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. Thomas H. Conway ; wounded at Shiloh ; died 
April 20, 1861, at McLemoresville on his way home. 

First Lieut. S. Turbeville; appointed quartermas- 
ter, September, 1861 ; discharged at reorganization. 

Second Lieut. Geo. W. Jackson; discharged at re- 
oriranization. 



134 History of Henry County Commands 



Third Lieut. J. LaPayette Lemonds; promoted to 
first lieutenant, September, 1861; discharged at re- 
organization ; re-enlisted in Company "D" ; elected 
lieutenant in Comjany ''G"; wounded at Perr^-yille, 
Murfreesboro and Peachtree Creek; post adjutant 
West Point, Miss., January, 1865 ; served through the 
war. 

First Sergt. James H. Turbeville; served one year. 
Second Sergt. L. B. Stalls; died Union City Aug. 
1st, 1861. 

Third Sergt. Jas. B. Milam ; elected third lieutenant 

of Company ^'A" at reor- 
ganization; wounded and 
captured at Parryville; de- 
tached at consolidation and 
captured in Henry County 
while recruiting company 
of cavalry; served through 
the war. 

P^urth Sergt. Thomas P. 
Jackson; served one year. 
First Corp. John A Jack- 
son; served through war. 

Second Corp. Joe J. 
Adams ; transferred to 
Company "F," One Hun- 
dred and Fifty-Fourth Ten- 
nessee. 

Third Corp. E. T. Looney ; discharged, ill health. 
Fourth Corp. Jas. H. Wharton. 
Clinton Aden; elected third lieutenant, September, 
1861; discharged at reorganization, and served as 




CORP. JOE J. ADAMS. 



In Confederate States Army. 135 

captain in Company "I,-' Tenth Tennessee Cavalry 
till close of the war. 

M. Bruce Alexander; captured at Harrodsburg ; 
wounded at Chattahoochee Bridge, July 7, 1864; dis- 
charged for disability. 

Wm. C. Alexander ; wounded at Chickamauga ; cap- 
tured at Nashville; served through the war. 

W. Perry Alexander; wounded and captured at 
Perry ville; served through the war; present at sur- 
render. 

Thos. J. Allman; served through the war. 

Wm. E. T. Atkins ; fell from train, .August, 1862 ; 
served one year. 

Thomas P. Baker; captured at Nashville; served 
through the war. 

Wm. C. Berkley; served one year. 

Wm. H. Boothe; wounded at Shiloh. 

Andrew J. Bouie ; died on train, May 3, 1862. 

James H. Bouie ; killed at Shiloh. 

James K. Boyd; died at hospital. 

John L. Brake; wounded in Georgia; served 
through the war. 

Wm. Brake; wounded and captured at Perryville; 
wounded at Atlanta; served through the war. 

Wm. Britt (Irish) ; discharged, over age. 

V. H. Caldwell. 

John H. Charles ; died during the war. 

Joseph Coleman; wounded at Shiloh. 

Hugh M. Collins ; served one year. 

P. D. Considine (Irish). 

E. L. Counsel. 

T. L. Darnall; died at home. 



13G History of Henry County Commands 

Patrick Davitt (Irish) ; discharged, over age. 

James M. Diggs ; died at Memphis, March 29, 18G2. 

R. P. Diggs; elected sergeant at reorganization; 
captured at Perrvville ; served through the war. 

W. F. Diggs; elected corporal at reorganization. 

Daniel Dismond (Irish) ; accidentally killed by fall 
from train. 

Owen D. Edwards; captured at Xew Madrid and 
Mission Ridge ; served through the war. 

S. E. Emory. 

Richard Floyd; killed at Perryville. 

Edward Garner; wounded at Shiloh. 

Wm. Harris. 

S. M. Hicks. 

John W. Hogg; wounded at Shiloh; served one 
year. 

M. B. Holland; served through the war. 

R. W. Holt. 

D. B. Howard; appointed quartermaster sergeant 
May, 1862; served through the war. 

John W. Janes. 

R. P. Johnson; promoted to captain in Fifty-Fifth 
Tennessee. 

Solomon Jones ; promoted to captain in Fifty-Fifth 
Tennessee. 

Wm. F. Jones ; wounded at Perryville ; captured at 
Nashville; served through the war. 

Thomas Karney; died August IT, 1861. 

Benj. Kendall; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge, lost 
an arm and discharged. 

R. J. Lacy. 

Jonathan J. Lamb; elected major at reorganiza- 



In Confederate States Army. 137 

tiou; promoted to colouel, Xovember, 1863; wounded 
at Ellsbtiry Ridge and died. 

Terry Leonard. 

Wm. Logan (Irish). 

Batie H. Martin; transferred to Company ''D/' 
Forty-Sixth Tennessee. 

Hugh M. McBride; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Malcolm McLeod; wounded and captured at Shi- 
loh and died. 

— . McMiniway (Irish). 

John A. Melton ; wounded at Shiloh ; wounded and 
captured at Mission Ridge; served through the war. 

Samuel H. Melton; died at Union Cit}^, August 13, 
1861. 

LaFayette L. Milam ; captured a flag at Shiloh ; 
was captured at Nashville ; served through the war. 

Marcus D. Milam ; killed at Mission Ridge. 

Dr. M. Guinn Milam; discharged, ill health, July, 
1863. 

T. J. Miller ; wounded at Shiloh. 

W. H. Miller; died in service. 

Thomas Moon. 

Lon Moore; died at Xew Madrid, Mo. 

Patrick Mullen (Irish). 

M. W. H. Nichols. 

Wm. Powers. 

J. M. Pritchett; secured a substitute. 

J. Ed. Ray; appointed quartermaster at reorgani- 
zation; promoted to division quartermaster; served 
through the war. 

Randolph Ray; wounded at Shiloh and discharged. 

Timothy Reagan ( Irish ) . 



138 History of Henry County Commands 

Patrick Keneliaii (Irish). 

Hugli M. Renfroe; served one year. 

Augustus Rhodes; died December 18, 18(31. 

John Riley. 

George W. Rose; died December 4, 18G1. 

Henry M. Rose; served two years. 

Robert C. Rose ; died October 4, 1861. 

W. W. Rust; wounded at Shiloh. 

Alex Seawright; died at Oxford, Miss., June, 1862. 

Patrick Shehan (Irish). 

Cornelius Shenehan (Irish). 

Michael Shields (Irish). 

William D. Street; captured at Island No. 10; 
wounded at Franklin; served through the war; was 
one of the thirty present at the surrender. 

J. AY. Taylor (sergt.) ; wounded at Atlanta; served 
through the war. 

W. H. Turbeville. 

John Younger. 

Wm. YS-elsb (Irish). 

Robert E. White ; died in the service. 

Americus L. Williams. 

W. PI. Wilson; elected sergeant in 1861, and first 
lieutenant at reorganization; promoted to captain, 
October, 1863; wounded at Mission Ridge; detaclied 
and was detective on M. & W. Pt. Railroad; served 
through the war. 

Thomas Woodcock (Irish). 



In Confederate States Army. 139 



KOLL OF Company ^'D/' Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt A. Wayne Caldwell ; re-elected at reorganiza- 
tiou ; wounded at Atlanta and died. 

First Lieut. Amos M. Milliken ; re-elected at reor- 
ganization; detached for awhile, November, 1862; 
wounded at Atlanta. 

Second Lieut. Wes. M. Humphreys; re-elected at 
reorganization; relieved at consolidation and trans- 
ferred to Company ^'G,'' Seventh Cavalry; served 
through the war. 

Third Lieut. Thos. C. Neal; re-elected at reorgani- 
zation ; wounded at Atlanta ; served through the war. 
(One of thirty present at surrender.) 

First Sergt. Rufus C. Hill; served two or three 
years. 

Second Sergt. Isaac Gore; discharged, ill health. 

Third Sergt. J. David Bradley ; wounded at Shiloh ; 
served through the war. 

Fourth Sergt. Wm. Stephens; served through the 
war. 

First Corp. George Key; served one year. 

Second Corp. T. K. Lawrence; served two years. 

Third Corp. G. W. McLain; served two or three 

years. 

Fourth Corp. J. B. Seaton ; wounded at Franklin ; 
served through the war. 

J. A. Aguilar (Jesse Mexican) ; elected sergeant 
at reorganization ; served two years. 

John Brannan ; served one year. 



140 History of Henry County Commands 

Wm. Brannan; served one year. 

Dr. John C. Bras well ; served two years. 

D. C. Cabe; discharged; served afterwards in 
Twentieth Cavalry. 

Wm. Cabe; died at home on furlough. 

E. D. Collier; served two years and afterwards in 
cavalry. 

A. Jack Cunningham ; served through the war. 

Peyton Dalton; killed at Perryville. 

Wm. Dalton ; served through the war. 

Rufus Davis; died in hospital. 

Alonzo Dodd; almost lost power of speech; served 
through the war. 

James Gore; died in hospital. 

J. D. Gore; discharged, ill health. 

Wm. Gore; died in hospital. 

Mack Hall ; served two years. 

Wm. Hall ; served through the war. 

John Harrell; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Wm. Harrell. 

James Hastings; served through the war. 

Wm. T. Hayes; served through the war. 

Jno. T. House; wounded at Atlanta and died in 
prison. 

Wm. Humphreys; served two years. 

Wm. A. James; served through the war. 

Jeff Jimmison; served two years. 

Samuei Johnson ; discharged. 

D. Jobe; killed by Federals near home. 

Harrison Jones ; served through the war. 

Louis Jones; unknown fate. 

Taswell Jones. 



In Confederate States Army. 141 

T. M. Jones; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

Wm. Jones; served through the war. 

Shelley Key ; served one year. 

M. Green Koen ; wounded at Atlanta. 

Dock Lamb ; served through the war. 

Thomas W. Lamb ; wounded at Shiloh ; lost an arm ; 
discharged. 

J. Hosea Malone; wounded at Perryville; served 
through the war. 

Jessee Mathis; killed at Shiloh. 

John W. Maxwell ; served one year. 

Marion Maxwell; died at Union City. 

Maston Maxwell ; served three and a half years. 

C. P. G. McGehee ; wounded and captured at Perry- 
ville and died. 

Perry McLain; served two years. 

Frank McMichael; served through the war. 

Thomas B. Miller; killed at Shiloh. 

Pate Nance; served through the war. 

Bias Paschall ; served one and a half years. 

Ed. Paschall ; served one year. 

James Paschall ; died in hospital. 

Thomas Paschall; wounded at Shiloh; died in hos- 
pital. 

Daniel Paty. 

James Piercy ; served one and a half years. 

Geo. W. Poyner; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge, los- 
ing a foot ; discharged. 

Weyman Poyner; served through the war. 

E. Green Seaton; wounded at Chickamauga and 
Jonesboro; served through the war. 



142 History of Henry County Commands 

J. K. (Tip) Shell; wounded and captured at At- 
lanta ; served through the war. 

Thomas Smith; perhaps died during the war. 

H. Somers ; served one year. 

P. L. Somers ; served one year. 

James I. Staguer; served one year. 

Eli Stephens; discharged, ill health. 

John Stiles; served one year. 

Robert Stiles; served one year. 

Wni. Stiles; died during the war. 

Andrew Thompson; killed at Perrwille. 

Hilliard Thompson; served through the war. 

John M. Thompson; wounded at Shiloh; served 
through the war. 

Matt Thompson; killed at Perryville. 

R. Van Thompson; wounded at Perryville; served 
through the war. 

Wm. G. Thompson ; wounded at Perryville and At- 
lanta ; served through the war. 

Thos. Turner ; served one year. 

R. Allen Wade; discharged, ill health. 

Jas. H. Walker; discharged, ill health. 

J. F. Wall ; wounded at Shiloh ; killed at Murfrees- 
boro. 

Mit Wall; served about two years. 

Pleas Wicker; served two years. 

John D. Wilson ; served one year. 

Pink Wilson; discharged, over age. 

James Woods; discharged for bad eyesight at Tu- 
pelo. 

John Yow; killed by falling tree at Columbus, Ky. 

Polk Yow; served one year. 



In Confederate States Army. 143 



Roll of Company ^'E,'' Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. M. Smith Corbett; resigned, July, 18G1. 
First Lieut. Alfred Rushing; died January, 1862. 
Second Lieut. Calvin Rushing; discharged at reor- 
ganization. 

Third Lieut. Will McCutchen; resigned, March, 

1862. 

First Sergt. Merideth Corbett; elected lieutenant 
at reorganization ; served through the war. 

B. F. Akers; served one year. 

J. M. Arnold; served one year. 

W. P. Arnold ; served one year. 

J. D. Atchison; served one year. 

D. C. Ball ; wounded at Atlanta ; served through the 
war. 

A. H. Baker; discharged at Columbus, Ky. 

Will Baker; served through the war. 

K. A. N. Barker; served one year. 

Charley Barns; served one year. 

Thomas Barns ; served one year. 

J. F. Baucuni ; died August 7, 1861. 

Richard Blanchett; served one year. 

Tim Blanchett; served one year. 

Tom Browden. 

J. F. Browning ; died March 20, 1862. 

W. H. Bunn ; died in hospital. 

Bose Childress; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge and 
discharged. 



144 History of Henry County Commands 

James H. Combs ; elected first sergeant at reorgani- 
zation; wounded at Resaca; served through the war. 

Jacob Corljett; discharged, ill health, July, 1861. 

W. M. Davidson ; served one ^ear. 

Wash Farmer; cut off at evacuation of Corinth. 

J. B. Florence; served about eighteen months. 

K. L. Floyd ; killed at Perrjwille. 

Sterling Floyd; served three years or more. 

George Forrest; killed on picket at Pine Mountain. 

Ky Forrest; served one year. 

James Garner; discharged, over age. 

John Garner; discharged, over age. 

Clay Gordon ; died at home on furlough. 

J. W. Hill; died March 29, 1862. 

Clint Harris; transferred to General Cheatham's 
staff; killed at Shiloh. 

Ab Hawley; served through the war. 

Al Herron; killed at Ellsbury Ridge. 

L. D. Holland; died at home on furlough. 

E. P. Holliman; served a year or more. 

E. G. Hudson; elected second lieutenant at reor- 
ganization ; wounded at New Hope Church and died. 

Joe G. Hudson; elected second sergeant; served 
through the war. 

J. H. Hudson; died August 1, 1861. 

O. C. Hudson ; serA^ed through the war. 

Burrell Jones; served one year. 

Berry Jordan; served one year. 

George Lashh^e; elected second lieutenant, March, 
1862; discharg(Hl at reorganization. 

Will Lashlee; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Thos Markham. 



In Confederate States Army. 145 

Billy Martin ; served through the war. 

John Maynard; died at Columbus, Ky. 

J. H. J^Iaynard ; died' April 20, 1862. 

John McGill; died at Columbus, Ky. 

John McElyea; died May 15, 1862. 

B. M. Melton ; wounded at Shiloh and died. 

J. P. Morris; served one year. 

R. J. Myrick ; died April 17, 1862. 

James Pafford; served through the war. 

John Palmer; cut off at evacuation of Corinth. 

Moses Parker; served one year. 

Ive Pierce ; served one year. 

J. L. Presson; killed at Shiloh. 

Will Prince; captured and disappeared. 

Thos Randle; transferred. 

James Reddick ; discharged under conscript law. 

Paul Rice. 

John P. Rushing ; elected lieutenant at reorganiza- 
tion; detached at consolidation. 

Berry Snyder; discharged, over age. 

Dood Spence ; served one year. 

James Stagner; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Joe Summers; served one year. 

Al Surratt; wounded at Shiloh. 

Pleas. G. Swor; elected captain, July, 1861; re- 
elected at reorganization; served through the war. 

James Thornton; wounded at Ellsbury Ridge, los- 
ing a leg; discharged. 

John Thornton; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Wm. Throckmorton; died, perhaps, in 1862. 

B. A. Totty; wounded and captured at Mission 
Ridge; served through the war. 

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146 History of Henuy County Commands 

Robert Ward; served one year. 
Robert B. Warren ; served one year. 
B. H. Webb ; died at Columbus, Ky. 
Jobn Williams; discharged and died at home. 
O. T. Wilson; served one year. 
Wm. Womack; discharged, ill health. 
Isaac Wygul; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
killed at Perrwille. 



Roll of Company "^F," Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. Joe H. Porter; appointed surgeon, August, 
1861 ; resigned, May 20, 1862. 

First Lieut. Horace T. Blanton, Jr. ; promoted to 
captain, August, 1861; discharged at reorganization; 
served as major of Napier's Cavalry. 

Second Lieut. James P. Cooper; promoted to cap- 
tain at reorganization; wounded at Shiloh ; wounded 
and captured at Perrwille; served through the war. 

Third Lieut. Joe T. Kendall ; appointed adjutant 
August, 1861 ; elected captain of Company '^K'- at re- 
organization ; wounded at Mission Ridge and died un- 
der the surgeon's knife. 

First Sergt. Finis E. White; transferred to Carnes^ 
Battery; promoted to lieutenant and served through 
the war. 

Second Sergt. D. F. (Oce) Alexander; elected a 



In Confederate States Army. 147 

lieutenant in August, 1861 ; discharged at reorganiza- 
tion; served as captain in cavalry until close of the 
war. 

Third Sergt. W. L. Cooper ; served in cavalry ; killed 
at Brice's Cross Koads. 

Fourth Sergt. John Porter; killed at Shiloh. 

First Corp. Henry H. Askew; killed at Perryville. 

Second Corp. Wm. H. Porter; appointed cadet in 
regular army; served in cavalry; killed at Brice'» 
Cross Boards. 

Third Corp. W. W. Porter. 

Fourth Corp. N. Calvin Howard; transferred to 
Company '^A"; served as sergeant and was elected 
lieutenant" in October, 1863; wounded at Franklin; 
served through the war ; present at surrender. 

Elisha Askew; knocked senseless by shell at Shi- 
loh. 

F. M. Beck. 

Andrew V. Boden; captured; served through the 
war. 

G. Bloomfield Boden; wounded at Atlanta; 
wounded and captured at Mission Ridge, and died in 
prison. 

James W. Boden ; captured at Murfreesboro and es- 
caped; served through the war. 

J. Wes Bowden; captured at Perryville; served 
through the war. 

Stephen Caplinger; died at hospital. 

Eldridge E. Carter; wounded at Perryville and 
died. 

William Chapman; discharged, over age. 

Francis Childers; killed at Kennesaw Mountain. 



148 History of Henry County Commands 

Robert P. Cole; promoted to captain in Twelfth 
Kentucky Cavalry. 

James H. Courts ; served in cavalry. 

Mastin D. Crawford; promoted to lieutenant and 
discharged at reorganization ; served in Company '^B," 
Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 

M. M. (Dock) Crutchfield; discharged, over age. 

James E. Daniel; elected sergeant at reorganiza- 
tion ; wounded at Shiloh ; served through the war. 

E. M. (Heck) Doty; wounded at Peachtree Creek; 
served through the war. 

William Flannagan. ^ 

Isaac Forrest. 

John Forrest. 

Ky Forrest. 

AVilliam Forrest. 

Mastin Freeman; discharged, ill health. 

James Gross. 

John Gross. 

Marion Gross; wounded at Shiloh. 

William Gross. 

Silas M. Hagler; elected first sergeant, August, 
1861 ; lieutenant at reorganization ; died August 1, 
1862. 

Alf Hammond. 

A. H. Hancock; wounded at Perryville; served 
through the war. 

James H. Hancock; knocked senseless by shell at 
Shiloh; served in Woodward's Cavalry; captured and 
escaped. 

Robert P. Hancock ; served through the war. 

Will Johnson. 



In Confederate States Army. 149 

Thomas Jones. 

Frank Kendall ; served through the war. 

J. J. Looney. 

John Lowry. 

John Martin. 

Will Matheny. 

Thomas McMinn. 

A. W. Moore; died in 1861. 
John Nichols. 

Jeff T. Olive; elected sergeant; wounded at Shiloh 
and at Atlanta ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
present at surrender. 

Rufus B. Olive ; elected corporal ; wounded at Mur- 
freesboro( colorguard) ; served through the war; one 
of thirty present at surrender. 

Robert Phillips; discharged, over age. 

Ed Ralls; killed at Shiloh. 

Jeff Rushing. 

Sam Smiley; discharged, over age. 

Gid Smotherman. 

James Snyder; perhaps killed. 

Thomas Spain ; killed at Shiloh. 

B. Frank Taylor ; knocked senseless by shell at Shi- 
loh; wounded at Perryville; served through the war. 

Houston Taylor; killed hj bushwhackers in East- 
ern Kentucky. 

Joe Veasey; died in 1862. 

James White. 

John Wliittaker. 

William Whittaker; wounded at Shiloh. 

George Yates. 

David Young; served through the war. 



150 History of Henry County Commands 



EoLL OF Company "G," Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. James E. Fowler; discharged at reorganiza- 
tion. 

First Lieut. William F. ( Gus ) Harris ; detached at 
reorganization for special service and soon captured. 

Second Lieut. John T. Irion; elected captain at re- 
organization; wounded and captured at Perryville; 
resigned, 1863, and appointed inspector of Cheat- 
ham's Division hospitals. 

Third Lieut. W. A. Foust; discharged at reorgani- 
zation. 

First Sergt. Bose D. Crutchfleld; killed at Mission 
Ridge. 

Second Sergt. T. Jeff Broach; wounded three times 
at Resaca; wounded at Peachtree Creek, and died 
from loss of blood after amputation. 

Third Sergt. Willis L. Hagler; served three and 
one-half years. 

Fourth Sergt. George W. Moody; discharged, ill 
health. 

Corp. Ep W. Simmons; captured at Nashville; 
served through the war. 

Corp. Bennett Scott ; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Corp. Henderson Liles; killed at Shiloh. 

Corp. Jack T. Wilburn; transferred to engineer 
corps. 

Abner Akers; on intirmary corps; discharged, over 
age. 

Uriah Akers; discharged, ill health. 



In Confederate States Army. 151 

J. W. Arnett; killed at Perryville. 

Jerry Ashley; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Brooks Barbee; killed. 

John A. Barton. 

J. J. Bass; served about fourteen months. 

J. H. Batey; served about eighteen months. 

Robert Bell; served through the war. 

Bud Bevil; served through the war. 

Sid W. Blackwood ; served through the war. 

Harrod Bomer ; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Addison Broach ; discharged for disability. 

Charles W. Burgess; wounded at Shiloh, losing an 
arm; discharged. 

AVesley Burgess; served through the war. 

Beverly Bush ; wounded at Shiloh and died. 

Perry Bush; died in hospital at Columbus, Miss. 

N. J. Bushart ; killed in railroad accident at Rienzi, 
Miss., 1862. 

William Bushart ; killed at Shiloh. 

John A. Carter ; killed in Henry County, Tenn. 

William D. Cate; discharged for physical disabil- 
ity; re-enlisted in Tenth Cavalry; served through the 
war. 

William H. Christian; discharged at Columbus, 

Js:y. 

Gid M. Comer; killed at Chickamauga. 
P. H. Comer; served one year. 
Eli W. Compton ; served through the war. 
James C. Compton; died at Tupelo, Miss., July 19, 
1862. 

Marshall Compton; died at Tupelo, June 15, 1862. 
George D. Coston; killed at Murfreesboro. 



lo2 History of Henry County Commands 

John Coston. 

Sam D. Cox; wounded and captured at Mission 
Eidge, and died in prison at Chattanooga. 

John W. Crutchfield ; knocked senseless by shell at 
Perry^'ille; wounded at Atlanta; promoted to ser- 
geant-major and to ensign ; served through the war. 

Arch Davis; discharged, ill health; re-enlisted in 
cavalry. 

Green B. Deets; on color-guard; wounded at Mis- 
sion Eidge; served through the war. 

Joe Dollahite. 

J. Newt Fields; promoted to sergeant; killed at 
Atlanta. 

W.H Fields; transferred to cavalry. 

John E. Flack; promoted to first sergeant; elected 
lieutenant, October, 1863; detached; served through 
the war. 

Julian Frazier; promoted to first sergeant, October, 
1863 ; wounded at Shiloh ; killed at Ellsbury Ridge. 

George A. French; discharged, ill health. 

J. P. French ; served a while in cavalry. 

Richard French; died. 

W. R. Gooch; discharged, over age. 

J. K. Polk Harmon; transferred to Company "G," 
Seventh Cavalry, and served till close of the war. 

Isham B. Harris; appointed quartermaster. 

E. J. Hastings; discharged, ill health. 

Green Hastings; dfed at Corinth. 

William Hastings; served tlirough the war. 

David E. Haymes. 

John R. Haymes; died at Corinth, March 25, 1862. 

J. Wesley Hicks; joined the Federals. 



In Confederate States Army. 153 

W. H. Hurtman; discliarged, ill health. 

J. H. Irvin; died at Jackson, Tenu. 

Joe H. Johnson; died from effects of measles. 

E. Pink Kirby; wounded at Resaca (lost a foot) ; 
served through the war. 

Samuel H. Lamb ; died at Chattanooga, July, 1863. 

J. L. Lemonds; elected second lieutenant, July, 
1863; promoted to first lieutenant; served throib^lj 
the war. ( See Company '^C." 

John L. Lewis ; captured and died in prison. 

W. H. Liles; died in autumn of 1861. 

J. B. Lipe; discharged and joined the Federals. 

William G. Lily; died (probably at Columbus, 

Ky.). 

J. N. Lowry; died June 10, 1862. . 

V. B. Lowry ; served one year. 

W. H. Lowry; served one year. 

T. A. Mabry; died at Tupelo, Miss. 

N. J. Malone. 

Richard T. Malone; transferred to Forty-Sixth 
Tennessee, and died. 

William C Martin ; discharged, ill health, 1863 ; re- 
enlisted in Company ''Gr," Seventh Tennessee Cav- 
alry. 

P. P. McAdoo; served two years. 

W. J. Mc Bride ; died at Columbus, Ky. 

John McCord; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Robert W. McCrory ; killed at Murfreesboro. 

J. W. McCullough; served one year. 

S. Houston Medlin ; cajjtured ; served through the 
war. 

R. A. Moody; wounded (perhaps at Perryville). 



154 History of Henry County Commands 

J. Calvin Morrow; captured at Mission Ridge; 
served through the war. 

W. J. Nash; served through the war. 

Jasper O'Daniel. 

Joe O'Daniel. 

William O'Daniel. 

James Owens ; killed at Lovejoy, Ga. 

Richard Owens ; served through the war. 

Samuel Owens; served through the war. 

S. D. Palmer ; died at home on furlough. 

Thomas Patterson ; captured on picket at Pine 
Mountain, Ga. ; served through the war. 

William D. Patterson ; wounded at Shiloh ( Colonel 
Venable dismounted and sent him to the rear on his 
horse ) . 

B. F. Peoples; elected first lieutenant at reorgani- 
zation; promoted to captain, August 14, 1863; senior 
officer of the regiment at the surrender. 

J. K. Polk Peeples; discharged, under age; re-en- 
listed ; captured at Mission Ridge ; served through the 
war. 

John R. Peeples; wounded at Mission Ridge; ap- 
pointed adjutant of Fifty-Second Tennessee; adju- 
tant of Camp Direction, Hamburg, S. C, at close of 
the war. 

Isaac Petty ; served one year. 

xVaron M. Pinson ; killed at Peachtree Creek. 

I. Henry Pinson; wounded at Atlanta; served 
through the war. 

W. Shelly Puckett ; died at home on furlough ( first 
death in the regiment). 

S. C. Robbins. 



In Confederate States Army. 155 

William H. Russell ; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Bennett Scott ; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Daniel Shofner; transferred to Twenty-Second 
Tennessee. 

T. D. Shofner ; transferred to Twenty-Second Ten- 
nessee. 

Henry Simmons; joined the Federals. 

John A. Simmons ; discharged. 

Bailey N. Sparks; killed at Shiloh. 

George W. Stayton ; discharged, over age. 

J. I. Stayton; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
transferred to cavalry. 

J. J. Stroud; killed at Perrwille. 

W. Harris Sullivan ; died at Corinth, May 25, 1862. 

William Thom])son ; served through the war. 

Joe W. Travis ; died. 

Carter Trevathan; died. 

James J. Vancleave (hospital steward) ; died Au- 
gust 4, 1862. 

Thomas Yaughan. 

Robert Walters ; discharged, ill health. 

D L. Willett ; elected second lieutenant at reorgan- 
ization ; detached at consolidation. 

John A. Williams ; discharged, over age. 

L. M. Williams. 

Stephen Williams; captured at Nashville; served 
through the war. (The wit of the regiment.) 

— . — . Williams ; died at Columbus, Ky. 

Mai*ion Wood. 

H. A. Workman; died at home on furlough, March 
18, 1862. 

James Workman ; died at Shelbyville, 1863. 



156 History of Henry County Commands 

George H. Wynns; elected sergeant at reorganiza- 
tion ; promoted to lieutenant, October, 1863 ; captured 
at Mission Kidge; served through the war. 

W. H. Wynns ; served one year, and later with For- 
rest's Cavalry. 

T. Wes Wynns. 

Henr}' Young; served three yeavs. 

James Young; served three years. 



Roll of Company ^^H," Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. James D. Dumas; discharged at reorganiza- 
tion. 

First Lieut. D. J. Bowden; discharged at reorgan- 
ization; served as second lieutenant Company ''D," 
Nineteenth Tennessee Cavalry. 

Second Lieut. James H. Collins; discharged at re- 
organization. 

Third Lieut. J. T. Freeman ; discharged at reorgan- 
ization. 

First Sergt. Sim W. Alexander; elected first lieu- 
tenant at reorganization ; served through the war. 

Second Sergt. Joseph B. Jones; appointed ensign; 
wounded and captured at Perry ville; detached as hos- 
pital steward ; served through the war. 

Third Sergt. William G. Trent; served through the 
war. 



In Confederate States Army. 157 

Fourth Sergt. Joe H. Jordan, elected first ser- 
geant at reorganization; second lieutenant, October, 
1863 ; killed at Mission Ridge. 

Fifth Sergt. C. L. Crowder; discharged. 

First Corp. Roland Carter ; served through the war. 

Second Corp. George M. Ridgway ; wounded at Shi- 
loh. 

Third Corp. William Oliver; died during the war. 

J. Q. Adams; died. 

L. Alexander; discharged. 

Bush Archer; wounded at Chattahoochee Bridge; 
served through the war. 

Sam Archer; killed at Perryville. 

M. B. Barr ; died at Corinth,^ July 19, 1862. 

T. N Bell; discharged; re-enlisted in Company "G," 
Seventh Cavalry. 

A. B. Berryman; transferred. 

William M. Bowden; wounded at Perryville; 
served through tlie war. 

Jacob W. Brogden; wounded at Murfreesboro ; 
wounded and captured at Nashville; served through 
the war. 

George AV. Brown ; wounded at Shiloh ; discharged. 

William Brown; discharged. 

Tom Bullock ; served through the war. 

Ben Bunton; captured at Mission Ridge and died 
in prison. 

T. Wes Bunton; cut off from command in Missis- 
sippi; joined Company ^'K," Twentieth Cavalry, and 
killed at Estanola. 

J. W. Cardwell ; discharged. 

A. Carroll ; discharged. 



158 History of Henry County Commands 

Elias Carter; died in hospital at Columbus, Miss. 

Richard A. Colev; wounded at Chickamauga ; 
served through the war. 

William Collev; discharged, ill health. 

Allen G. Coltharpe ; wounded at Shiloh ; discharged. 

George W. Crawford; wounded at Murfreesboro 
and Peachtree Creek; elected lieutenant, October, 
1863; served through the war. 

Court Crutchfield. 

Tom J. Dumas; captured at New Madrid. 

William D. Dumas; detailed on Engineer Corps; 
served through the war. 

Z. D. (Dock) Edwards; wounded near Pine Moun- 
tain on picket and captured at Nashville; served 
through the war. 

Alex Farmer; served two years. 

Will H. Farmer; served through the war. 

Sam H. Fizer; wounded at Shiloh; discharged; re- 
enlisted in Company "K," Twentieth Cavalry. 

William Fizer; discharged. 

B. F. Freels; discharged. 

George Hayes; discharged. 

William Hayes; discharged. 

William Hill ; died. 

Spence W. Hunt ; captured at New Madrid ; served 
in Twentieth Cavalry. 

J. H. Jones; transferred. 

John N. Jones; died in hospital. Columbus, Miss., 
June 3, 1862. 

Permenas Jones ; died at Columbus, Miss. 

Simeon Jones; died at Chattanooga, August, 1862. 

Frank Killebrew ; died at Columbus, Ky. 



In Confederate States Army. 159 

F. Marion Killebrew; elected third lieutenant at 
reorganization; killed at Perryville. 

G. W. Lowry; served through the war. 
Harrison Martin; died at home on furlough, Au- 
gust, 1861. 

M. N. McNeilly; elected lieutenant, October, 1863; 
served through the war. 

B. P. McWhirter. 

I. Murrell; died. 

William O'Kelly (Irish) ; lost sight of in Georgia. 

A. Olive; died. 

Joe Oliver. 

William Oliver; wounded at Perryville and died of 
wound. 

M. B. Owensby; captured at New Madrid; served 
in cavalry. 

Rufe Owensl)y; died. 

J. I. Parrish ; died at Cairo, 111. 

Frank V. Pegram. 

T. C. Phillips ; detailed with pontoon train ; served 
through the war. 

Thomas Phillips; served through the war. 

William Phillips; died in hospital at Columbus, 
Miss. 

Terrill Price; wounded at Mission Ridge. 

E. Reynolds; died at home with measles, 1861. 

Robert Ridgway; died. 

AYes W. Ridgway; killed at Franklin. 

James E. Sanders; wounded in Georgia; served 
through the war. 

Addison Sheridan ; killed at Perrwille. 

LaFayette Sims; died June 7, 1862. 



160 History of Henry County Commands 

Marion Sims; died. 

William C. Sims; ensign at Shiloli; supposed to 
have been killed by bushwhackers in Kentucky. 

Dr. A. J. Smith ; transferred. 

A. J. Snodgrass ; served through the war. 

Dock Speight. 

Seth Speight; wounded at Chattahoochee Bridge; 
discharged. 

J. H. Stunson; wounded at Shiloh; died May 7, 
1862. 

Mike Terry ; served through the war. 

G. M. Thomason ; transferred. 

H. A. Thompson; discharged. 

W. A. Thompson ; wounded four times at Murfrees- 
boro and captured; discharged; mail carrier. 

J. H. Timmons; discharged. 

James M. Todd ; discharged. 

Joe W. Tribble; wounded at Atlanta; served 
through the war. 

Bud Ward. 

John W^ Webb ; killed at Shiloh. 

Late Young. 



In Confederate States Army. 161 



Roll op Company "I," Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. William D. Hallum ; wounded at New Madrid 
(first one in tlie regiment) ; discharged at reorganiza- 
tion; enlisted Company ^^E," Twentieth Cavalry (vet- 
eran of Mexican War). 

First Lieut. T. B. Haynes; discharged at reorgan- 
ization. 

Second Lieut. James Haynes; wounded at Shiloh; 
discharged at reorganization; served in cavalry and 
killed in battle in Mississippi. 

Third Lieut. Henry C. Greer; discharged at reor- 
ganization ; served as lieutenant-colonel of T^ventieth 
Cavalry. 

First Sergt. James Bowles; discharged, over age. 

C. T. (Tip) Allen; wounded in the neck at Perry- 
ville, coughed up the ball and walked back to Knox- 
ville, Tenn; captured at Nashville; served through 
the war. 

J. W. Allen ; served through the war. 

Samuel A. Allen; wounded at Peachtree Creek and 
died. 

W. H. Allen; wounded at Chickamauga; served 
two and one-half years. 

J. K. Polk Alexander; wounded at Shiloh and Mis- 
sion Ridge; served through the war. 

Robert Baker. 

W. D. Baker; served through the war. 

W. H. Barbee ; wounded at Mission Ridge and died. 

N. J. Barham ; furnished a substitute. 
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162 History of Henry County Commands 

Tom Barker; discharged, ill health. 

Ed Bohanan; served through the war; wagonmas- 
ter. 

Kice Bostwick ; joined the Federals. 

A^'alter Bowden ; joined cavalry. 

Wni. Bowles; discharged, over age. 

Smith C. Breedlove; on infirmary corps; served 
through the war. 

Kobert H. Breedlove; served through the war. 

John Brewer ; served through the war. 

Tom Bryant ; served one year. 

Alf Busbee; died at Union City. 

B. B. Busbee; served through the war. 

Ransom Busbee; died at Corinth, Miss. 

Ed. Chapman; wounded at Murfreesboro and cap- 
tured ; joined the Federals. 

F. M. Clark; elected lieutenant at reorganization; 
served through the war. 

John Cody. 

Jack Coleman; served through the war. 

G. J. Coleman ; wounded at Atlanta ; served through 
the war. 

John Copeland ; elected first lieutenant at reorgani- 
zation; wounded and captured at Perr\wille and es- 
caped; served through the war. 

Thomas Copeland ; discharged, over age ; re-enlisted 
in Company "E," Twentieth Cavalry. 

John Carson ; died at Chattanooga. 

John R. Crosswell ; appointed sergeant major; 
elected third lieutenant in 1863 ; wounded at Atlanta ; 
served through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 163 

W. A. Dillahunty; transferred to Tenth Tennessee 
Cavalry. 

Ab A. Dinwiddle ; ensign ; wounded at Shiloli ; 
wounded and captured at Murfreesboro ; wounded at 
Atlanta, and died at hospital at Macon, Ga., August 
8, 1864. 

Matt B. Dinwiddle; color guard; wounded at At- 
lanta; served as second lieutenant in Company ''B/ 
Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry; served to close of the 
war. 

Sid Ellis; lost sight of during the war. 

Alex Fields; died at Union City. 

Henry Fields; died. 

Abe Foster; discharged, ill health. 

George W. Foster; served through the war. 

Elijah Foust; elected captain at reoi^ganization ; 
wounded and captured at Mission Ridge; died at 
Camp Chase, January 10, 1864. 

James Freeman ; discharged, under age. 

Albert Gibson; served one year. 

Frank Gibson; discharged, under age. 

John Gibson; served one year. 

J. Monroe Gilbert; discharged, and re-enlisted in 
a Texas regiment'. 

A. B. Goodin; discharged, ill health; re-enlisted in 
cavalry. 

Richard Grenade ; served through the war. 

^y. Bird Greer; wounded and made cripple; dis- 
charged. 

W. H. Green; discharged on account of lameness. 

Joe J. Hagler; wounded at Chickamauga; captured 
at Mission Ridge; served through the war. 



164 History of Henry County Commands 

Thomas Hannah ; discharged, ill health. 

Wm. Hannah ; served one year, and in cavalry and 
killed. 

Samuel Haynes; discharged, under age. 

S. C. Hearn; appointed chaplain, 1862; served 
through the war. 

James Hicks; died in hospital. 

Ad Jones; served through the war. 

Eli Jones; wounded at Perryville; served through 
the war. 

Lazarus Johnson; killed while bathing in Chatta- 
hoochee River, July 7, 1862. 

W. M. Kennedy. 

Joe LaFlore; served one year; served also in cav- 
alry. 

A. H. Lankford; promoted to corporal; wounded 
at Atlanta; captured at Xashville; served through 
the war. 

W. S. Lankford ; served through the war. 

J. D. Looney ; served through the war. 

Thomas L. May ; served two and one-half years. 

Tom Marshall. 

Robert McAdoo; discharged, over age. 

Jas. H. McCampbell ; transferred to Company ^'F," 
One Hundred and Fift^^-Fourth Tennessee. 

Gid Milam; captured and died at Rock Island. 

John Miller; probably discharged. 

Shoat Mitchell; served one year. 

James Moffett; promoted to first sergeant; served 
through the war. 

W. A. Morphis; wounded at Shiloh; served two or 
three vears. 



In Confederate States Army. 165 

Tom Morris; served one year. 

Richard Mullins. 

Link Kewton; discharged, over age. 

James Xolen; died at Colnmbus, K3^ 

John O'Brien; wounded at Shiloh, and died in hos- 
pital. 

C. P. Owensby; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
through the war. 

Bedford Parrish; captured and afterwards served 
in cavalry. 

John Patterson; discharged, over age. 

J. O. Penick; cut off at Corinth; served as lieuten- 
ant in Tenth Cavalry. 

John Penick; died at Union City. 

James Perkins ; secured a substitute. 

W. E. Petree. 

James Randle ; discharged, ill health. 

Thomas Reynolds; died at Memphis, April, 1862. 

Wm. Reynolds; served one year. 

Louis Ridley; discharged. 

Frank C. Robertson ; killed at Atlanta. 

Wm. Robertson; served one year. 

Albert Rogers; served one year. 

John Ross; captured at Nashville; served through 
the war. 

Silas Simmons; captured at Nashville; served 
through the war. 

Nick Stubbs; served two and a half years. 

Elias Sullivan ; died at Corinth, Miss. 

Harrison Sullivan. 

J. C. Tillman; elected second lieutenant at reor- 
ganization. 



166 History of Henry County Commands 

Haywood Thomas; served one year. 

Matt Thomas; killed at Shiloh. 

George Thomason ; transferred to some other regi- 
ment. 

Joe Thompson; wounded at Shiloh; discharged. 

A. Green Trevathan; transferred to Forty-Sixth 
Tennessee Infantry. 

Jack Underwood ; served one year. 

Ben Vincent ; discharged. 

Edward Wallace; wounded at Shiloh. 

W. T. Ward ; served through the war. 

W. M. Wiubush; wounded at Shiloh and Chicka- 
mauga; served througli the war. 

John Wright; captured at Shiloh^ joined the Fed- 
erals. 



Roll of Company ''K/' Fifth Regiment^ Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. H. W. Ballard ; discharged at reorganization. 

Capt. Joe T. Kendall ; elected captain at reorgani- 
zation; wounded at Mission Ridge and died under 
Federal surgeon's knife. (See Company "F"). 

First Lieut. George C. Street; discharged at reor- 
ganization. 

Second Lieut. Wes E. Harris; elected first lieuten- 
ant at reorganization ; detached, August, 1863. 

Third Lieut. R. A. Brisendine; discharged at reor- 
ganization. 



Ix Confederate States Army. 167 

First Sergt. J. Wm. Howard; elected second lieu- 
tenant at reorganization; wounded at Peach tree 
Creek; served through the war. 

Second Sergt. Wm. McClure; discharged, over age. 

Third Sergt. D. P. McClure; captured at Mission 
Ridge; served through the war. 

Fourth Sergt. Edwin H. Rennolds; elected first 
sergeant at reorganization; third lieutenant, October 
10, 1863; wounded at Perryville; served through the 
war; one of thirty present at surrender. (Author.) 

Fifth Sergt. J. W. Pillow; captured at Mission 
Ridge; served through the war. 

First Corp. AYm. B. Duff ; died at Atlanta, July 3, 
1863. 

Second Corp. Philip Kennerly; wounded and cap- 
tured at Perryville; killed at Mission Ridge. 

Third Corp. J. M. B. Elliott; elected third lieuten- 
ant at reorganization; discharged October, 1863. 

Fourth Corp. John S. Rennolds; died at Corinth, 
April 17, 1863, of typhoid fever. 

Henry Adams; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
through the war. 

James Adams; served one year. 

Merideth Alexander; served one year. 

E. R. Atchison; discharged, over age. 

J. J. Atchison; discharged, over age. 

John M. Arnn; served one year; joined the Fed- 
erals. 

J. A. Austin; discharged (perhaps). 

W. T. (Link) Ballard; killed at Murfreesboro. 

A. Dillard Beckwith; promoted to corporal; killed 
at Resaca. ( Died rejoicing. ) 



168 History of Henry County Commands 

Dr. C. Ed Bradley; discharged, ill health. 

Thos. J. Brisendine ; wounded and captured at Mis- 
sion Ridge; lost an arm; served through the war. 

W. Thomas Browning; captured at Mission Ridge; 
died in prison. 

Carroll Bruce. 

Ed R. Bumpass; served one year. 

John Burnley; served one year. 

Louis Bustle; discharged; joined Federals; killed 
at Fort Pillow. 

Cal W. Cherry; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
through the war. 

LaFayette Cherry ; served in Lyons' Escort. 

John M. Coffman; promoted to first sergeant; 
wounded at Atlanta; served through the war. 

W. Bens Cook ; served one year. 

Jacob Cox; captured at Mission Ridge; served 
through the war. 

Joe Dick ; served one year. 

Robert W. Ditterline; served one year. 

Robert Dixon. 

S. R. Drown; wounded at Shiloh; discharged. 

Z. O. Drown ; discharged for disability. 

Jack Dublin; discharged, November, 1861, (to care 
for his mother and sister, his father having been 
killed by the explosion of gun. Lady Polk). 

Alvin H. Dugger; wounded at Shiloh; died at hos- 
pital. 

Jons. E. Dunaway. 

A. Y. Duncan ; after one year served in Twentieth 
Tennessee Infantrv. 



In Confederate States Army. 169 

Hugh M. Dimlap; killed in a skirmish while serv- 
ing in a company of partisan rangers. 

Isaac Dunlap; served one year. 

J. E. Dunning; wounded at Mission Kidge; served 
through the war. 

Alvin Edwards ; served one year. 

— . — . Ellis ; wounded at Franklin ; served through 
the war. 

Jarrell Fields; served one year. 

W. Shade Forrest ; served one year. 

K. H. Foy; wounded. 

D. G. Fuller; served one year. 

John Fuller; served one year. 

Wm. D. Gordon; wounded at Shiloh (probably 
discharged ) . 

Joe Haggard; served one year. 

S. M. Y. Haggard; served one year. 

Eobert Harris ; promoted to corporal ; killed at Per- 
ry ville. 

Wm. D. Hendricks ; promoted to sergeant ; wounded 
at Murfreesboro, Mission Ridge and Franklin; served 
through the war. 

M. J. Henry; transferred. 

George Hooks ; served one year. 

Mordecai Holland; disappeared. 

J. Kincaid Hope; appointed quartermaster, May, 
1862 ; served through the war. 

Abe Hudgens ; died during the war. 

James G. L. Kennerly; wounded and captured at 
Perrj^ille; served through the war. 

Jas. P. Kesterson; served one year. 

Ed G. Kyle; served one year. 



170 History of Henry County Commands 

Joe T. Kyle; served one year. 

H. A. Wise Laurie; wounded at Shiloh; served 
through the war. 

Elijah McClure; discharged, over age. 

W. A. McEwin ; served one year. 

Frank M. McGuire; captured at Mission Ridge; 
served through the war. 

Alex McMullen; wounded at Shiloh; died at hos- 
pital, April 25, 1862. 

Thomas Middleton; detailed as blasksmith. 

Samuel A. Miller; served through the war. 

Alf W. Mooney ; served one year. 

Meek B. Mooney; wounded at Shiloh. 

Tandy G. Morris, Jr. ; shocked by shell at Murfrees- 
boro ; served through the war. 

Wm. C. Morrison; served one year. 

Harvey M. Murrell; wounded at Shiloh; captured 
at Mission Ridge; served through the war. 

Isaac H. Murrell ; died April 7, 1862. 

J. L. Murrell ; discharged, ill health ; re-enlisted in 
cavalry. 

J. Perry Murrell ; killed at Shiloh ; first man killed 
in battle with the regiment. 

R. Wales Murrell; served about three years and 
afterwards in Third Kentucky Cavalry. 

R. H. (Dock) Newport; captured at Mission Ridge; 
died in prison. 

B. F. Newton ; served one year. 

Robert W. Overby ; served one year. 

James F. Parker; promoted to Corporal; served 
three and one-half years. 

H. L. Perry; joined the Federals. 



In Confederate States Army. 171 

Alonzo Pillow ; transferred to Hume's Battery ; pro- 
moted to first lieutenant ; served through the war. 

James A. Powell ; discharged, ill health. 

Chas. B. Pro vine; captured at Mission Ridge; died 
in prison. 

J. M. Rathburn; died March, 1862. 

Samuel Ridgway; captured at Mission Ridge; 
served through the war. 

George W. Robertson; killed at Sliiloh. 

J. Ed Rogers; detailed as teamster to Gen. A. P. 
Stewart; served through the war. 

Robert C. Rogers, teamster; served through the 
war ; present at surrender. 

Z. Scott; died in 1861. 

F. Mart Sinsel; killed at Shiloh; (veteran of Mexi- 
can war). 

Alonzo Steele; discharged, under age. 

Wm. H. Story; died at Holly Springs, Miss., April 
7, 1862. 

Joe Taylor; served one year. 

H. Marsh Tibbs ; served through the war. 

Hugh M. Tyler; discharged, ill health. 

J. Wiseman Vest; served one year. 

Con P. Walker; appointed commissary sergeant. 
May, 1862 ; captured at Nashville ; served through the 
war. 

J. Wes. Walber ; served about one year. 

J. T. Wheeler ; served one year, or more. 

Dave Willis; served one year. 

Ed E. Willis ; served one year. 

Wm. Willis; served one year. 

James A. Wilson ; served one year. 



172 History of Henry County Commands 

J. D. Wilson; captured at Mission Kidge; served 
through the war. 

J. G. Wilson; died June 1, 1862. 

J. Wes. Wilson; (probably) discharged. 

M. L. Wilson ; discharged, ill health. 

James B. Young; served through the war; (acci- 
dentally shot one of his fingers off). 



EoLL OF Company '^L," Fifth Kegiment^ Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. J. T. Winfrey; discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. B. P. Utley; discharged at reorganiza- 
tion. 

Second Lieut. J. S. Watkins; discharged at reor- 
ganization. 

Third Lieut. John Ballard; discharged at reorgani- 
zation. 

First Sergt. H. S. White. 

Second Sergt. George C. Camp; elected lieutenant 
at reorganization; wounded and captured at Perry- 
ville; detached and served with Forrest's Cavalry; 
afterwards ordered back to the regiment; wounded 
at Peachtree Creek. 

G. W. Allison ; died April 27, 1862. 

Jonathan Bailey; died at Louisville, Ky. 

J. M. Box ; died' June 8, 1862. 

Joe Box. 



In Confederate States Army. 173 

J. T. Camp; served in cavalry. 

J. A. Childers; died March 7, 1862. 

Wm. Conley ; elected second lieutenant at reorgani- 
zation. 

A. J. Fry; died December 12, 1862. 

M. M. Fry; elected captain at reorganization; de- 
tached at consolidation. 

Clay Gordon-; died of measles. 

A. M. Gossett. 

D. A. C. Gossett ; had smallpox at Shelby ville. 

Bryant Guiley; elected first sergeant at reorgani- 
zation. 

D. B. Guiley; wounded at Perr;\^dlle and died. 

J. Harper ; wounded at Atlanta. 

G. T. Harrison; captured at Nashville; served 
through the war. 

Thomas Harrison; wounded at Perry^dlle. 

Pleas Henderson. 

W. E. Henderson ; died May 31, 1862. 

J. Hollinsworth ; died June 6, 1862. 

P. Kennedy; killed at Mission Ridge. 

Andy Mackey; captured at Perryville. 

J. A. Malin ; killed at Shiloh. 

W. C. Malin; killed at Murfreesboro. 

W. C. Mcllwain ; died January 25, 1863. 

W. H. Merrick ; died July 23,^ 1862. 

Will Merrill ; died of fever. 

Nelson Nowell; died of smallpox. 

J. K. Sanders; killed at Perryville. 

William Stegall. 

W. H. Thompson ; died March 20, 1862. 

Georo'e Thornton. 



174 History of Henry County Commands 

H. Thornton ; died June 8, 1862. 

M. Tubbs; died May 18, 1862. 

Ed Wallace; wounded at Peaehtree Creek. 

W. T. Ward; wounded at Atlanta. 

H. L. White ; elected sergeant at reorganization ; 
wounded at Perryville and died. 

J. N. Wood ; died February 20, 1863. 

XoTE — This company was from Benton County. 
Its total enlistment must haye been at least eighty, 
but the aboye are all the names I haye been able to 
secure, after diligent effort. 



Roll of (Company ''M," Fifth Regiment, Tennessee 
Infantry. 

Capt. John A. Lauderdale; appointed assistant 
quartermaster, 1862. 

First Lieut. J. B. Ward; elected captain at reor- 
ganization; killed at Resaca. 

Second Lieut. J. Lucius Bowman ; killed at Shiloh. 

Third Lieut. A. J. Alexander; dist-harged at reor- 
ganization. 

W. D. Allen. 

Robert P. Andrews; elected second lieutenant; 
seryed through the war. 

W. H. Armstrong. 

W. H. Barnes. 

R. B. Barnes; seryed through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 175 

J. M. Bartlett. 

John B. Bass; wounded at Atlanta. 

E. Beard. 

J. D. Bennett. 

M. Blanton. 

R. D. Board. 

A. Bolton. 

E. F. Bradley. 

John K. Breast; wounded at Atlanta; served 
through the war. 

' xl. L. Brevard; elected first sergeant; wounded at 
Atlanta ; served through the war. 

Arch E. Brevard; wounded at Murfreesboro ; de- 
tached to quartermaster department. 

J. H. Brevard. 

E. B. Brevard ; elected sergeant ; wounded at At- 
lanta; captured at home on furlough, January, 1865; 
served through the war. 

J. A. Brigance. 

J. H. Brigance. 

B. Brooks. 

J. H. Brooks; killed at Belmont. 

W. Brother. 

G. L. Burnes; died during the war. 

W. T. Burnes. 

E. By num. 

D. S. Campbell. 

J. D. Campbell. 

Peter Capote; wounded at Perry^dlle. 

A. Caton. 

R. Clark. 

J. Click; wounded at Eesaca. 



176 History of Henry County Commands 

T. W. Click. 

W. H. Click. 

J. M. Cook. 

W. D. Cook. 

S. Cypert. 

J. L. Daniels. 

S. F. Daniels.- 

H. H. DeBow. 

Thomas Dillon; served through the war. 

J. Dixon. 

R. Edmiston. 

W. J. Elder. 

A. E. Ellis. 

Alex A. Farris; wounded at Perryville; lost an 
arm ; detailed as mail carrier to Hickman, Ky. 
J. Fletcher. 

F. A. Fore. 

C. W. Furlong. 

D. Gallagher. 
Peter George. 

J. R. Gillett; appointed assistant quartermaster; 
killed at Perryville. 

B. F. Gonley. 
L. B. Gregory. 
B. C. Hamby. 
J. S. Hasey. 
H. Hayes. 

G. M. Herring; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

R. B. Hopkins ; served through the war. 
W. J. Huffman ; wounded at Atlanta and died. 
J. B. J6hnson; captured at Jonesboro; joined the 
Federals. 



In Confederate States Army. 177 

J. S. Johnson. 

C. C. Jones. 

J. H. Jones; wounded at Belmont and Jonesboro. 

A. H. King; served through the war. 

J. C. Kirk ; killed at Ellsbury Ridge. 

Sam J. Kirkpatrick; elected third lieutenant; 
wounded at Peachtree Creek ; served through the war ; 
one of thirty present at surrender. 

F. Kittrell. 
J. T. Landis. 
T. J. Lane. 

J. K. Polk Lawson; killed at Atlanta. 

J. Lamotte ; served through the war. 

J. Mahan. 

A. McFarland ; wounded at Resaca, died of wound. 

P. McMannis. 

H. Melrose. 

W. F. Mitchell. 

J. M. Morgan. 

P. Moxlev. 

S. M. Moxley. 

W. C. Moxlev. 

C. G. Panister. 

Matt M. Parker; captured four Yankees at Mur- 
freesboro; wounded at Resaca and died. 

J. Paulsgrove; wounded at Atlanta; lost an arm; 
probably discharged. 

G. W. Powell.^ 
C. G. Prather. 
J. R. Price. 
W. H. Pyle. 

J. Quinn. 

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178 History of Henry County Commands 

J. C. Kamey. 

S. K. Ramey; died during the war; 

J. B. Ray ; wounded at Peachtree Creek. 

L. W. Roach. 

W. Rolfe. 

W. F. Rowe. 

R. B. Russell. 

Daniel Sawyer; served through the war. 

J. L. Sawyer; served through the war. 

W. B. Shaw. 

A. J. Smith. 

P. W. Stanley. 

G. N. Taylor. 

J. R. Taylor. 

A. W. Thomas. 

Charlie Trout; served through the war. 

A. E. Tucker ; elected lieutenant at reorganization ; 
killed at PerrTsille. 

Henry A. Tyler; discharged, ill health, 1861; served 
as captain of Company "A," Twelfth Kentucky Cav- 
alry. 

James P. Tyler; elected lieutenant at reorganiza- 
tion; served through the war; one of thirty present 
at surrender. 
- Robert Tyler; killed at Belmont. 

H. T. Watson. 

J. W. Wiles. 

R. S. Young. 

Note — This company was from Hickman, Ky., in- 
cluding a squad from Southern Illinois; was com- 
posed of excellent fighting material. Have been un- 
able to secure complete casualties. 



HISTORY 



OF THE 



Forty-Sixth Regiment, 



TENNESSEE INFANTRY* 



During the summer of 1861 plans were made to en- 
list another infantry regiment in Henry County, as 
the continual increase of the Federal armies by 
heavy levies showed conclusively that the Confeder- 
ate-forces must be reinforced to meet them, and our 
grand old county never lagged behind when men and 
means were needed. Following the wise example of 
Colonel Travis, it was deemed best to try and secure 
the whole command from its geographical limits, and 
it not only succeeded, but proved advantageous in 
many ways. 

The commanding officers of the two militia regi- 
ments were instructed by Governor Harris to collect 
all suitable firearms from the citizens and turn them 
over to the ordnance department. Col. J. D. Wilson 
of the One Hundred and Fourteenth Regiment was 
very efficient in this work. Col. John M. Clark pro- 
posed to take the lead in the enlistment, attended the 
regimental musters early in October and urged the 
formation of companies, and the enrolling, which was 
179 



180 History of Henry County Commands 

already begiiu, was pushed forward with great alac- 
rity, and soou ten companies were enlisted. 

The Fifth Eegiment was composed mainly of young- 
unmarried men, but a large proportion of the Forty- 
Sixth were men who left wives and children to enter 
the service. There were many, however, who were 
mere boys, who a few months before had taken the 
places on the farm of their older brothers, who had 
rushed to arms at the first call, and there were also 
not a few men who were in the full strength of young 
manhood. 

Noveml)er 29, 1861, the companies were assembled 
at Paris, Tenn., and the regiment organized by the 
election of field officers. ( The names of officers, both 
regimental and company, will be found in the proper 
places on the rolls which follow this history.) On 
Monday, December 16, the regiment rendezvoused at 
Paris, and was ordered to go into camp at Union 
City, whither they were transported by rail. On 
reaching this point they were set to work building 
winter quarters. Shortly afterward Capt. John W. 
Harris' Company ''C' was detached to guard the 
Mobile & Ohio Railroad bridge over the Obion River 
south of I^nion City. Before the winter quarters were 
completed the regiment was ordered to Island Xo. 10 
in the Mississippi River, whence they were moved 
January 10, 1862, going by rail to Hickman, Ky., 
where Company "E," Captain Tharpe, and Company 
'T," Captain Poyner, both under command of Major 
Brown, were left as provost guard for the town. The 
other seven companies were transported on the 
steamer AYinchester, and landed on the Tennessee 



In Confederate States Army. 



181 



shore of the Mississippi River opposite Ishmd No. 10. 

Pitching their tents, it was necessary to floor them 
with rails and carpet them with cornstalks to elevate 
their blankets above the water, with which the rains 
had covered the river bottom. Stick and mud chim- 
neys were built to the tents to warm them. 

Onh^ a short while elapsed before the measles, that 
great scourge of new levies, broke out in camp, and 
soon many of the poor fellows were prostrated upon 
their rough beds in the middle of winter, without 
mother, wife or sister to care for them, and Surgeon 
S. H. Caldwell and his assistant, Dr, T. J. Taliaferro, 
had their hands and brains and hearts full of duties. 
But they did all that 
human skill could do 
with the very limited 
means at their com- 
mand. No houses suitable 
for liospital purposes Were 
to be found nearer than 
Hickman, Ky., whither 
many of them were sent. 
The ladies of this patriotic 
town exhibited that kind- 
ness of heart so character- 
istic of Southern woman- 
hood, and to this day the 
men who were so tenderly 
cared for and supplied 
with delicacies are full of 
gratitude to these noble ladies. 

Only a part of the regiment was armed and these 




DR. S. H. CALDWELL. 



182 History of Henry County Commands 

only with sliotouns, squirrel rifles and old muskets. 
One compauy had only seven guns. They were em- 
ployed thro wi no up fortifications, being drilled a very 
little. Company ''D" volunteered to man the floating 
battery and were drilled in artillery tactics. There 
were about forty pieces of heavy ordnance on the 
island and on the main land opposite. 

General Polk evacuated Columbus, Ky., March 9, 
1862, retiring first to New Madrid, Mo., and on the 
12th crossed to the Tennessee side, marched to Tip- 
tonville and moved down the river on steamers. On 
the 13 til the Federal gunboats appeared and bom- 
barded the Confederates night and day for twenty- 
three days. The infantry, for the most part, were 
kept out of range and suffered few casualties. Two 
of the Forty-Sixth, LaFayette Bowden of Company 
"F," and William Howsden of Company "x\," were 
killed by the explosion of a shell. They were marched 
and counter-marched from point to point to meet ex- 
pected attacks, the enemy having passed the island 
at night with part of their gunboats and landed in- 
fantry forces below them. Reelfoot Lake, running 
parallel with the river, barring their retreat in that 
direction, they were formed in two lines about two 
hundred yards apart, facing outwardly, and kept in 
line all night of April 7. On the 8th, there being no 
way of escape, they were surrendered to the Federal 
forces. The two companies from Hickman having re- 
joined the regiment, were included. 

Many who were unarmed, while those with arms 
were absent, built rude rafts of logs and loose lumber 
and escaped across Keelfoot Lake, through the high 



In Confederate States Army. 183 

water, and returned to their homes. Most of these 
rejoined the regiment after its exchange or enlisted 
in cavalry. The regiment was first carried to New 
Madrid, Mo., and the officers separated from the men, 
not meeting again until they returned from prison. 
The officers were carried first to Camp Chase and a 
few days later to Johnson's Island in Lake Michigan. 
The privates were imprisoned at Camp Douglass near 
Chicago. At both places they were quartered in bar- 
racks. 

The confinement was very irksome and they suf- 
fered in many ways; but these sufferings would have 
been greatly intensified had their imprisonment oc- 
curred in the winter time instead of summer. There 
were some deaths from disease, which will be men- 
tioned in the company rolls. Ex-Gov. Andrew Johnson 
visited Camp Douglass, and made a speech to the men, 
advising them to take the oath of allegiance to the 
United States and return home. Nearly all of the men 
received the advice with scorn. A very few, however, 
listened to his seductive plea and were thus released. 
The commander of the prison threatened dire ven- 
geance on all rebels who used any influence to per- 
suade men not to take the oath. 

The enlisted men left Camp Douglass September 
8, and were carried to Cairo by rail, and thence to 
Vicksburg by steamers and there reunited with their 
officers, who came on different boats, and on the 23d 
of September were exchanged. 

The regiment was then reorganized at Jackson, 
Miss., under the provisions of the conscript law. 
Jonathan S. Dawson was elected colonel, Robert 



184 History of Henry County Commands 

A. Owens, lieutenant-colonel, and Joseph D. Wilson, 
major. Lieut. Isaac M. Hudson was appointed adju- 
tant, James T. Williams, quartermaster, and Dr. J. 
T. Matliis, surgeon. 

After remaining in camp a few davs they were sent 
to Holly Springs to assist in the attack on Corinth by 
Price and YanDorn, but met the Confederate forces 
retiring after a fruitless attack on Corinth's fortifi- 
cations. 

The regiment was then sent to Port Hudson and 
consolidated with the Forty-Second Tennessee, and 
Col. I. N. Hulme, of the latter regiment, placed in 
command. Maj. J. D. Wilson and several company 
officers of the Forty-Sixth becoming supernumeraries, 
were ordered to Tennessee to collect the men who had 
escaped at Island 10, and to secure new recruits for 
the regiment and forward them to the command. A 
Camp Direction was established at Blue Creek Church 
in Humphreys County, and details of officers were sent 
o^er the Tennessee River to gather up the men, and 
secure others and conduct them to the rendezvous. 
Henry County being within the Federal lines, and a 
regiment of Iowa Cavalry stationed at Ft. Heiman, it 
was a difficult and dangerous task. But it was so 
skillfully conducted, and with their thorough knowl- 
edge of the country, and the sympathy and coopera- 
tion of the loyal citizens of Henry County, they gen- 
erally escaped capture. 

There was a nest of Union sympathizers, how- 
ever, near Big Sandy Station, through whose ter- 
ritory it was necessary to pass with the greatest cau- 
tion. Bv the middle of December tiftv or sixtv men 



In Confederate States Army. 185 

had been collected, aud these Major Wilson carried 
to Port Hudson, leaving the camp in charge of other 
officers. Another, but smaller detachment, having 
been gathered up, were also conducted to the regi- 
ment in February, 1863, and the remaining officers 
accompanying it, the camp was broken up. Captain 
Harris' Conipany ''C," which had been attached 
to the Fifth Tennessee, was orderd back to the Forty- 
Sixth, and thus the whole regiment was united 
ao-ain. In December the Forty-Second was separated 
and the Forty-Sixth and Fifty-Fifth consolidated. 
Col. Alex J. Brown of the Fifty-Fifth succeeded to 
the command, and the two regiments remained to- 
gether till the close of hostilities. They were placed 
under Brigadier-General Maxey of Texas. Colonel 
Hamilton of Mississippi was appointed drillmaster. 
He was a trained and skillful tactician and brought 
the regiment to a high state of discipline and drill. 
The officers were required to diligently study '^Har- 
dee's Tactics," and to recite a lesson each day. 

The winter was spent at Port Hudson, drilling each 
day and doing guard, picket and fatigue duty. An 
expedition was fitted out during the winter to at- 
tempt the capture of the Federal gunboat Star of the 
West, doing picket duty on the Mississippi River. 
Several members of the Forty-Sixth volunteered as 
members of the attacking party, and the effort proved 
successful, the boat being captured and destroyed. 
Private Asa B. Swett distinguished himself greatly, 
being one of the first to board the vessel. 

March 14, 1SG3, the Federal gunboats shelled Port 
Hudson for a f(^w hours, but then withdrew, aft(- 



18G History of Henry County Commands 

one had ])een disabled and snnk. Tlie land forces 
meantime liad advanced from Baton Kouj^e, and 
Qnarles' Brigade was moved out to meet them, but 
they also retired without a collision. May 1 the regi- 
ment, with others, was put on a forced march to Wil- 
liams' Bridge, on the Amite River, to intercept, if 
possible, a Federal cavalry raid through Mississippi 
and Louisiana. The command traveled thirty-five 
miles between noon of the 1st and afternoon of the 
2d, but reached the bridge twelve hours after the Fed- 
erals had passed. Remained in camp there till the 
7th of May, and then marched by easier stages to 
Chrystal Springs, and went by rail to Jackson, Miss., 
on the 13th to meet Grant's advance prior to his in- 
vestment of Vicksburg. They were stationed in the 
breastworks on the west of the town. The Federals 
advanced and placed sharpshooters in a plum thicket 
in front, where they were enabled to compel the Con- 
federates to lie low in the trenches. Col. R. A. Owens, 
ever brave and unwilling to give the least evidence of 
disinclination to share danger with his men, seemed 
to them to unnecessarily expose himself, and one of 
them called his attention to the danger he was in. 
He stepped down into the trench, and, throwing up 
his hand at the time, a sharpshooter who fired at him 
sent a ball through his hand, disabling it for life and 
keeping him from his command for some time. One 
of the regiment watched for the man who fired the 
shot and when next he appeared, fired at him, saw 
him fall and his comrades take him from the field. 

Grant withdrew to the environment of Vicksburg, 
and the Forty-Sixth followed General Johnston in all 



In Confederate States Army. 187 

the hard marching for the next seven weeks in his at- 
tempt to open communication with Pemberton's be- 
leaguered army at Vicksburg. This post having sur- 
rendered on July 4, Grant again advanced eastwardly 
and General Johnston fell back before his victorious 
foe. 

The regiment bore its part in the fighting around 
Jackson and of the hard marching rearward to For- 
rest Station. Here the Federals, having given up the 
pursuit, they camped for two weeks, then went by 
rail to Enterprise, camping at that point for three 
weeks, and were then ordered to Mobile, by the Mobile 
& Ohio Railroad, reaching that point August 30, and 
remained in camp there till late in November, 1863, 
drilling and doing some police duty in the city. Col. 
W. A. Quarles, having receive'd his commission as 
brigadier-general, was placed in command, and the 
Forty-Sixth remained in his brigade till the close of 
the war. Colonel Brown of the Fifty-Fifth having 
died, Lieut.-Col. R. A. Owens of the Forty-Sixth was 
promoted to colonel and placed in command of the 
Forty-Sixth and Fifty-Fifth regiments. Maj. J. D. 
Wilson was advanced to the rank 'Of lieutenant-col- 
onel and Capt. S. C. Cooper to that of major. Late in 
November, 1863, the brigade was ordered to Chatta- 
nooga, Tenn. The train conveying them was halted 
at Ringgold on the 25th and the command hastily 
left the train and formed in line of battle to repel a 
rumored advance of the enemy. A line of skirmishers 
was thrown out and after waiting a while and finding 
it was a false alarm, tliey again boarded the train and 
proceeded to Chickamauga Station. Here the sound 



188 History of Henry County Commands 

of heavy firin.t>- told how a battle was raging on Mis- 
sion Iiidge. Soon the roads were filled with the 
routed troops of Bragg's army, many of them being 
wounded. Quarles' Brigade guarded the military 
stores that were being loaded on the trains. About 
4 o'clock a. m. on the 26th they took up their line of 
march to the rear, reaching Dalton on the evening of 
the 2Tth. 

They were set to work in a few days building win- 
ter quarters and were soon comfortably housed. The 
weather meantime was severely cold, and the ex- 
posure very great, but the men bore it with the for- 
titude of veterans, as they now really were. January 
19 they were ordered back to Mobile, and leaving their 
comfortable quarters, they returned to that city. They 
did police duty in Mobile on alternate days, march- 
ing back and forth to camp several miles. Later the 
duty was reduced to one day in three. 

In February they were sent by rail to Meridian to 
meet Sherman's advance, and did a great deal of 
marching and maneuvering for several days, when 
the regiment returned again to Mobile and remained 
till May 21, when Quarles' Brigade was finally trans- 
ferred to the Army of Tennessee, then in North Geor- 
gia, going by steamer to Montgomery and by rail to 
Ac worth. They reached Xew Hope Church just after 
a corps of Sherman's army had '^butted against" 
Stewart's Division (as a Federal general expressed 
it) and had been brought to a sudden halt. 

During the months of June, July and August, 1864, 
the Forty-Sixth and Fifty-Fifth took part in the 
daily and nightly marching, fortifying, maneuvering. 



In Confederate States Army. 189 

skirmishing and fiohting that befell the Army of Ten- 
nessee while they tried to hold at bay Sherman, with 
his unlimited amount of men and means, and pre- 
vented his advancing more than forty miles in a hun- 
dred days. 

They were fortunate enough not to be placed in a 
position wliere their losses were heavy till July 28, 
but on that fateful day it was their lot to. meet danger 
and disaster that equaled the aggregate losses of 
some other commands during weeks of fighting and 
proved that they were made of the same stern mate- 
rial of other troops from old Henry and covered it 
with a halo of glor}^ and won for it a renown that any 
command might be proud of. 

The Federals, who had been continually extending 
their lines to the right, reached, on the morning of 
July 28, 1864, a highway called the ''Lick Skillet 
Road," and at once began to fortif}^ their position. 
General Hood, who had succeeded General Johnston 
in command, ordered Gen. A. P. Stewart to attack 
them with his corps and drive them back. 

Loring'S Division was in the first line, and 
after they had advanced and been repulsed, Wal- 
thall's Division ( of which Quarles' Brigade formed 
a part) was then ordered forward. After pass- 
ing through a small field they halted a moment in 
a ravine, perfected the alignment and again moved 
steadily forward through thick oak undergrowth, less 
than a hundred yards towards the Federal trenches, 
in front of which the undergrowth had been cut, away 
for about twenty paces. As the line emerged from the 
thicket they came into full view of the enemy's works. 



190 



History of Henry County Commands 



scarcely a dozen 
hear them as they 
of command, fired 




yards away, and could distinctly 
cocked their rifles, and, at the word 
such a volley that the Confederate 
line was shattered and 
brought to a sudden halt. 
Ensign P. A. Sullivan fell 
desperately wounded at the 
first volley. He handed the 
colors to Capt. W. S. 
Adams of the Fifty-Fifth 
Tennessee. Captain Adams 
fell pierced by at least 
twenty bullets. Lieutenant 
Hemphill, also of the Fifty- 



ENSIGN P. A. SULLIVAN. 

Fifth, raised the standard, 
but was soon shot through 
the mouth. Then W. D. 
Wilson of Company "D" 
elevated the colors and was 
struck in the arm by a min- 
nie ball, from the effects of 
which he wears to this day 
an armless sleeve, and the 
colors fell into the enemy's 

hands. LIEUT.-COL. J. D. WILSON. 

Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson received a dangerous 
wound in the body and fell across a log. Private 




In Confederate States Army. 191 

Sinotherman of Compaiiv ^'D" pulled him down be- 
hind the log and Col. R. A. Owens gave him his can- 
teen of water, thus supplying a wounded soldier's 
first and most urgent need. Colonel Wilson was cap- 
tured and languished in prison till the close of the 
war. Lieut. Frank Dumas and Adam A. Hope (a 
most pious Christian) were killed, and Louis Smoth- 
erman, William Mathis and Newt Vancleave died of 
their wounds. Many others were killed, wounded and 
captured, amounting to about 150 out of the 250 with 
which the Forty- Sixth and Fifty-Fifth entered the 
battle. The engagement did not last exceeding fif- 
teen minutes, some placing it at only five minutes. 
C. M. Kennerly says that he expended sixteen car- 
tridges at men standing between two trees, whose 
places were filled by others as fast as they fell. 

The attack having failed, those who escaped death 
or wounds were withdrawn to places of protection 
and proceeded to fortify their position. 

When Sherman withdrew from before Atlanta and 
moved upon Hood's communications, Stewart's Corps 
was retained with the Georgia militia for the defense 
of the city, while the other two were sent to meet the 
flank movement, and thus fortunately missed the dis- 
astrous battle of Jonesboro. 

When Hood turned the tables and started for Sher- 
man's rear, Walthall's Division struck the Western 
& Atlantic Railroad at Big Shanty, and the Forty- 
Sixth and Fifty-Fifth supported a Mississippi regi- 
ment that attacked a block house, and after a few 
rounds from a battery a white flag was raised and 
sixty-five Federals were captured. A freight train 



192 History of Henry County Commands 



loaded with jL»Tain was also captured, the boiler cut up 
and tlie pieces used to parch coru iu. The meu were 

then set to work to tear up 
th(^ railroad, aud did their 
full share in this work all 
the way up to Dalton. 

The reoimeut accompa- 
nied Hood on his expedi- 





MAJ. S. C. COOPER. 

tiou to Tennessee, and was 

almost annihilated at 

Franklin. It occupied a 

place in the first line. They 

first droye the pickets from 

their holes, and then a line lieut. r. b. hendricks. 

of battle from li^ht rifle pits, and followed them 

closely to their main fortifications. The regiment oyer- 

lapped a short distance on Cleburne's Division and 

many of his dead were passed. 

Th(^ Federals opened with canister when the Con- 
federates were within al)out 200 yards, and with rifles 
soon afterward. Ensign Sulliyan crossed the ditch 
and planted his colors beside the embankment. ]\Iaj. 



In Confederate States Army. 193 

S. C. Cooper, in command of the regiment, led his 
men up to the works and fell desperately wounded. 
Lieut. K. D. Hendricks received his death wound. His 
diarv stained with his life blood lies before me as I 
write. Lieut. William L. Hope fell within forty yards 
of the works, pierced with thirteen wounds, but sur^ 
vived for five days. The men crouching behind the 
breastworks fired under the headlogs at the Federals. 
Some one (perhaps an officer) raised a white flag on 
a bayonet, and the fire slackened somewhat. Capt. 
P. M. Hope said to Ensign Sullivan : 'Taul, the cause 
is lost, shelter yourself," and, crouching near the 
works, was struck by a ball and died almost instantly. 
As Sullivan looked at him he, too, was struck by a ball 
and fell senseless. On regaining consciousness, he 
saw that the Confederates were gone, and a Federal 
said to him : *'Come over the works, your men are 
gone behind the cotton-gin," gave him his hand and 
helped him over the works, and carried him over to 
where the others were gathered behind the gin. Capt. 
E. A. C. McGehee was killed near the works, and 
Capt. J. D. Paschall, wounded. C. M. Kennerly, on 
reaching the breastworks, dropped in the ditch and 
shot under the headlog, killing a Federal who was 
loading his gun. Then propping his feet against the 
works, knocked up the enemy's guns as they tried to 
shoot him. When the white flag was raised he threw 
his gun behind him and crawled over the breastworks. 
A Federal soldier tried to shoot him, but another 
knocked down the gun and said: ^^That man is sur- 
rendering.'' The names of others killed, wounded ant] 
captured will be found in the company rolls. 
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194 History of Henry County Commands 

As an example of the depletion of the regiment dur- 
ing the campaign of 1864, it is related by Lieut. M. V. 
B. Valentine that Companies ''D'' and ^^E" entered the 
campaign at New Hope in Maj with seventy-two men, 
and came out of it at Nashville in December with only 
two men and one officer (Lieut. V.) for duty; and Maj. 
S. C. Cooper says that the regiment went into the bat- 
tle at Franklin with one hundred and twenty-five men 
and came out with only twenty-five. 

The Forty-Sixth took part in the disastrous Battle 
of Nashville, and had the honor of forming part of 
the rear-guard on the retreat from Tennessee. When 
the other West Tennessee troops were furloughed at 
Corinth in January, 1865, the Forty-Sixth was not 
granted this coveted boon, but were sent with the shat- 
tered columns of the once proud Army of Tennessee to 
North Carolina, to meet once more Sherman's hosts, 
and there fought their last battle at Bentonville, laid 
down the arms they had used so well, -and came back 
to their loved State and County to tell the widows 
and orphans of their dead comrades how their loved 
and honored kinsmen had freely shed their precious 
blood for the ''Lost Cause'- and to prove themselves 
by their after lives that brave men are worthy of 
trust and confidence as well in peace as war. 



In Confederate States Army. 195 



Roll of the Field and Staff^ Forty-Sixth Regi- 
ment^ Tennessee Infantry. 

Col. John M. Clark; captured at Island 10; de- 
tached at reorganization; served in Thirty-Third 
Texas. 

Lieut.-Col. J. W. Johnson; captured at Island 10; 
discharged at reorganization. 

Maj. James S. Brown; captured at Island 10; dis- 
charged at reorganization. 

Surgeon, Dr. S. H. Caldwell ; captured at Island 10 ; 
resigned at reorganization; afterward served as sur- 
geon of Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 

Assistant Surgeon, Dr. Thomas J. Taliaferro; cap- 
tured at Island 10; resigned at reorganization. 

Adjutant Jonathan S. Dawson; captured at Is- 
land 10; elected colonel at reorganization. 

Sergt.-Maj. Joseph D. Wilson; captured at Island 
10; elected major at reorganization; promoted to 
lieutenant-colonel ; wounded and captured at Atlanta ; 
served through the war. 

Quartermaster B. F. Ridgway. 

Commissary, Samuel J. Ray; discharged at reor- 
ganization; afterwards commissary of Twentieth 
Tennessee Cavalry. 

Quartermaster Sergt. J. Wade Barton ; escaped. Is- 
land 10. 

Commissary Sergt. Adam A. Hope; captured at 
Island 10 ; killed at Atlanta. 

Ensign Paul A. Sullivan; wounded at Perryville 



196 History of Henry County Commands 

and at Atlanta; wounded and captured at Franklin; 
served through the war. 

Ordnance Sergt. James Aycock ; escaped, Island 10. 



Roll of Company "A," Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Ca^. James W. Weldon; captured at Island 10 
discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. Pink Chilcutt; captured at Island 10 
died in prison. 

Second Lieut. Alex Morgan ; captured at Island 10 
died at home. 

Third Lieut. Cullen Phillips; escaped at Island 10. 

First Sergt. Robert Lowry ; escaped at Island 10. 

Second Sergt. Thomas Chilcutt ; captured at Island 
10 ; died in prison. 

Third Sergt. J. W. Chilcutt ; captured at Island 10. ; 
died in prison. 

Fourth Sergt. George Roberts ; escaped at Island 10. 

Fifth Sergt. Andrew M. Wilson; captured at Is- 
land 10, and afterward escaped ; captured at Atlanta ; 
served through the war. 

First Corp. A. J. Morton ; escaped, Island 10. 

Second Corp. Hugh Chilcutt; captured at Island 
10 ; died in prison. 

Third Corp. Joe T. Lax; escaped at Island 10; re- 
turned to regiment and served through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 197 

Fourth Corp. P. C. Boyd; captured at Island 10. 

D. J. Alexander ; captured at Island 10. 

B. H. Angell ; captured at Island 10. 

Jesse Bradsliaw ; escaped at Island 10. 

Richard Bradshaw ; captured at Island 10. 

Calvin Causey ; escaped at Island 10. 

James Champlin. 

Henry Coleman ; escaped at Island 10. 

Travis C. Coleman; wounded at Kennesaw by can- 
non shot ; served through the war. 

Harrison Cooper ; captured at Island 10. 

Clark Eaves; escaped at Island 10; returned to 
regiment ; served through the war. 

James English ; captured at Island 10. 

Milton Flynn; escaped at Island 10; joined the 

Federals. 

Jack Fowler; escaped at Island 10; returned to the 
regiment ; served through the war. 

Robert Freeland; escaped at Island 10. 

Thomas Gibson ; captured at Island 10. 

W. S. Gresham ; captured at Island 10. 

N. Guill ; escaped at Island 10. 

A. J. Halsted ; died of measles at home on furlough. 

Elisha Hawes; transferred to Company "B.^^ 

Easton W. Hays; escaped at Island 10. 

J. J. Henderson; escaped at Island 10. 

William F. Henderson ; captured at Island 10 ; es- 
caped from prison. 

Dock Howsden ; escaped at Island 10. 

Sam Howsden ; escaped at Island 10. 

William Howsden; wounded by piece of shell at 
Island 10 and died April 8, 1862. 



198 History of Henry County Commands 

John Lax. 

Aaron Linnville; escaped at Island 10. 

Joseph Kennerly; escaped at Island 10. 

E. A. C. McGehee; captured at Island 10; elected 
captain at reorganization; killed at Franklin. 

A. H. McLain. 

M. A. McLain. 

Thomas McSwain; escaped at Island 10; served in 
Wheeler's Cavalry. 

Robert Moody; captured at Island 10; died in 
prison. 

E. N. Moody; escaped at Island 10. 

James D. Morgan ; escaped at Island 10. 

D. G. Morton ; escaped at Island 10. 

A. B. Oliver ; captured at Island 10 ; elected lieuten- 
ant at reorganization; accidentally killed by falling 
tree. 

J. T. Parks ; escaped at Island 10. 

Gabe Powers. 
* John Phillips ; killed at New Hope. 

A. C. Ratteree. 

John Reed; captured at Island 10; died in prison. 

John Robbins; escaped at Island 10; killed by 
guerrillas. 

J. M. Roberts; transferred to Company "B." 

Thomas Robertson; died of measles, December, 
1861. 

J. D. Rowlett; captured at Island 10; wounded at 
Atlanta. 

J. Shelley; died of measles. 

James Simpson. 

Samuel Smith ; escaped at Island 10. 



In COlSlFEDERATE STATES ARMY. 199 

John Smoot ; escaped at Island 10 ; returned to regi- 
ment; wounded and lost a hand at Nashville; served 

through the war. 

John Sroot; escaped at Island 10; returned to regi- 
ment ; served through the war. 

J ^Y, Steele; escaped at Island 10; served m cav- 

airy. 

Claudius Swor; died January, 1862. 

— . — . Townley. 

— — . Townley. 

Felix G Trousdale; escaped at Island 10; trans- 
ferred to Company "A," Fifth Tennessee. 

T. M. Vaughan ; escaped at Island 10. 

David Walker; died July, 1862. ^ 

Ben Wallace; escaped at Island 10; returned to 
reo-iment ; served through the war. 

S. Y. Watson ; escaped at Island 10 ; enlisted m cav- 

A. M. Weston ; escaped at Island 10. 

John Weston ; escaped at Island 10. 

William Willoughby ; captured at Island 10 ; served 

through the war. ., . , . t^ 

Robert A. Wilson ; enlisted in Seventh Alabama In- 
fantry ; served till disbanded; then with Napier's Cav- 
alrv, and in this company; wounded at Atlanta July 
28^1864; on light duty till surrender, June, 18b5; 
served longer than any other man from the county. 

William Winchester ; escaped at Island 10. 

G. W. Wisehart; escaped at Island 10. 

John Wright; died of measles. 



200 History of Henry County Commands 



Roll of Company "B," Forty- Sixth Regiment Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. John A. Allen, M. D. ; captured at Island 10 ; 
discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. George Hart; captured at Island 10; 
died in prison. 

Second Lieut. John F. Upchurch; escaped at Is- 
land 10; served in cavalry. 

Third Lieut. Calvin Edgar. 

First Sergt. W. Green Randle; escaped at Island 
10. 

Second Sergt. John W. Nance; escaped at Island 
10 ; returned to regiment ; served through the war. 

Ezekiel P. Adams; captured at Island 10; killed 
at Franklin. 

Edmund Allman. 

James Allman. 

S. A. Barnhill ; died August, 1862. 

Joseph Beard ; escaped at Island 10 ; discharged, ill 
health. 

Sam Beard; escaped at Island 10; served in Com- 
pany "G," Seventh Cavalry. 

George Biles; captured at Island 10. 

W. D. Bostick. 

Frank Bowman; elected lieutenant at reorganiza- 
tion; served through the war. 

J. L. Brundridge ; died February, 1862. 

William N. Darnell. 

John Dean ; captured at Island 10. 

Richard Diggs ; died February, 1862. 



In Confederate States Army. 201 

R. T. Edgar; captured at Islaud 10; took oath in 
prison. 

William (rlover. 

George Grisliam. 

James Hart. 

Elijah Hawes; captured at Island 10; died in 
prison. 

E. Howe; died August, 1862. 

G. W. Jackson; died February, 1862. 

Thomas Jackson ; captured at Island 10. 

Elijah Johnson; captured at Island 10; died in 
prison. 

John AV. Kemp. 

William Kendall. 

John F. Lee; captured at Island 10. 

R. A. Lee ; escaped at Island 10 ; served in cavalry. 

J. M. Lucas; captured at Island 10; died in prison. 

P. M. Marberry; escaped at Island 10. 

James Mathis: captured at Island 10. 

Jesse Mathis; captured at Island 10. 

Jack McDougall; captured at Island 10; killed at 
Atlanta. 

L. H. Nance; died at Atlanta, June, 1864. 

W. Thomas Nance ; escaped at Island 10 ; served in 
Tenth Cavalry; returned to regiment; captured at 
Nashville; served through the war. 

Henry Poole; captured at Island 10; perhaps died. 

Pink Poole ; captured at Island 10 ; perhaps died. 

Henry Powell; captured at Island 10; died in 
prison. 

William Ralls; captured at Island 10; wounded at 
Atlanta. 



202 History of Henry County Commands 

R. J. Russell; captured at Island 10. 
W. W. Smith ; captured at Island 10. 
James Whittaker. 

Jeptha Williams; captured at Island 10; died in 
prison. 



Roll of Company "C," Forty- Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. John W. Harris; wounded and captured at 
Perryrille; discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. Bird McKinne}^ ; discharged, ill health. 

Second Lieut. Charles Pinson; discharged, ill 
health. 

Third Lieut. Willi.ua S. Frier; resigned, April, 
1862. 

First Sergt. Samuel W. Cochran; elected third 
lieutenant, April, 1862; promoted second lieutenant, 
July, 1862 ; first lieutenant, September, 1862 ; elected 
captain at reorganization; wounded at Atlanta; 
served through the war. 

Second Sergt. William Winsett; killed at Atlanta, 
July 28, 1864. 

Third Sergt. Charles Kelly ; secured a substitute. 

Fourth Sergt. Wash Greer; killed at Atlanta, July 
28, 1864. 

Fifth Sergt. John W. Palmer; served through the 
war. 

Corp. Jack Hall; killed at Atlanta. 



In Confederate States Army. 203 

Pleas Ashley ; served through the war. 

Britt Barbee; transferred to Company ^'I," Fifth 
Tennessee. 

M. A. Barbee; died June, 1862, at Tupelo, Miss. 

N. J. Blackwood. 

Sid. W. Blackwood; transferred to Company ''I," 
Fifth Tennessee. 

John Bowers ; served through the war. 

J. N. Cannon. 

J. F. Cate; died July 19, 1862. 

J. W. Cate; killed by shell at Port Hudson. 

E. W. H. Cochran; transferred to Company "K;" 
wounded at Atlanta; died in hospital. 

James Cope. 

Wesley Covington. 

Henry Cuthbertson ; served through the war. 

E. F. Deets; died June, 1862. 

David Emerson ; served through the war. 

Joseph N. Giles ; killed at Perry ville. 

W. H. Greer; discharged, ill health. 

W. W. Greer ; killed at Port Hudson. 

B. M. Grissom; died at Corinth, Miss., May, 1862. 

James Grissom; killed or died. 

John Grissom. 

Wm. Grissom; served through the war. 

Jack Hall ; killed at Atlanta. 

John Hall; killed at Atlanta. 

L. Green Hastings. 

P. E. Hays; served also in Company "E," Twen- 
tieth Cavalry. 

W. M. Hays ; died June, 1862. 

W. F. Hester; knocked down by shell at Atlanta; 



204 History of Henry Co-unty Commands 

captured at Franklin; escaped that night; served 
through the war. 

J. H. Hicks; died February 6, 1863. 

\V. E. Hicks; served three and one-half years. 

B. A. Hinchey ; served about two years. 

Benjamin Horn. 

William Horn. 

G. B. Housman; disappeared on Kentucky cam- 
paign. 

George Jackson ; served three and one-half years. 

Thomas Lacy. 

W. J. Lassiter ; died January 16, 1863. 

John AY. Myrick; killed at New Hope Church. 

L. A. Myrick; died May, 1862. 

W. H. Myrick ; died January, 1862, at home on fur- 
lough. 

Bryant Peel ; lost sight of during the war. 

B. G. Peeples; discharged, ill health, at Tupelo, 
Miss. 

J. P. Pettyjohn; died June, 1862. 
J. W. Powell. 

Charles A. Puckett; died May, 1862. 
Larkin Panes ; discharged, ill health. 

C. K. Rigsby ; killed at Perryville. 
John Rigsby; killed at Atlanta. 

Jacob Robertson; served through war; present at 
surrender. 

J. V. Robertson ; captured at Jackson, Miss. ; served 
through the war. 

J. W. Smithson; wounded at Perryville and died. 

Pleasant Stanfleld ; served through the war. 

J. W. Underwood; died August, 1862. 



In Confederate States Army. 205 

L. Mart Walton; secured a substitute; re-enlisted 
in Company ^^E," Twentieth Cavalry. 

S. H. Wiley; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

Joel Wren. 



Roll of Company ''D/^ Forty- Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. Sylvester C. Cooper; captured at Island No. 
10; re-elected at reorganization; promoted to major; 
wounded and captured at Franklin; served through 
the war. 

First Lieut. Richard H. Crank; captured at Island 
No. 10; discharged at reorganization. 

Second Lieut. James E. Calloway; captured at Is- 
land No. 10; discharged at reorganization. 

Third Lieut. G. Addison Duncan ; escaped at Island 
No. 10. 

First Sergt. Wm. R. Newport; Captured at Island 
No. 10 ; wounded at Jackson, Miss. ; served through 
the war. 

Second Sergt. Charles W. Kennerly; captured at 
Island No. 10; wounded at Atlanta; captured at 
Franklin ; served through the war. 

Third Sergt. Thomas Lankf ord ; captured at Island 
No. 10 ; killed at Peachtree Creek. 

Fourth Sergt. Reuben Valentine; captured at Is- 
land No. 10 ; served through the war. 



206 History of Henry County Commands 

(Note — All the sergeants were re-elected at reor- 
ganization.) 

^\. Powell Abbott ; escaped from Island No. 10. 

Ed Arnn; captured at Island No. 10; discharged 

George Atkins. 

Jack Atkins; discharged because of nearsighted- 
ness. 

Banks Baldwin ; escaped from Island No. 10. 

Castillo Barfield. 

Samuel Bomer; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Willis Bonner; (veteran of Mexican War). 

Wilev Brake; captured at Island No. 10; killed at 
Peachtree Creek. 

Charles B. Calhoun ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

John A. Carson; captured at Island No. 10; died 
in prison, April 27, 1862. 

Kobert A. Carson; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

Wm. Cauley; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Joshua Charles. 

James Council; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Austin Douglass; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
in cavalry. 

Keuben Edgar; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Wm. Haguewood. 

James Hendricks; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Samuel Hendricks; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Pleas M. Hope; elected first lieutenant at reor- 
ganization; promoted to captain; killed at Franklin. 

Wm. L. Hope; captured at Island No. 10; elected 



In Confederate States Army. 20? 

third lieutenant at reorganization ; wounded at Frank- 
lin and died. 

G. Horace Jackson; captured at Island No. 10; 
wounded at Franklin ; serA^ed through the war. 

Henry Jackson. 

John Jackson ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; wounded 
at Franklin ; served through the war. 

James Jobe ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; returned to 
the regiment ; served through the war. 

K. M. Jobe, Jr. ; died February, 1862. 

T. Jerome Kindred (drum major) ; captured at 
Island No. 10 ; served through the war. 

Wm. T. Kindred ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
through the war. 

Will Kirby; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

W.^D. King; died May, 1862. 

George Lannom. 

Jake Lannom. 

Hall Laurie ; captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged, 
ill health. 

James T. Littleton; captured at Island No. 10; de- 
tailed on Pioneer Corps; served through the war. 

Aaron Lowry. 

Jack Lowry. 

Orren Lowry. 

Batie H. Martin; captured at Nashville; served 
through the war. 

B. G. Martin ; died May 5, 1862. 

Wm. Mathis. 

Jack McDougal. 

Alex Morris. 



208 History of Henry County Commands 

John Overcast; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Wm. S. Overcast; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Granville H. Parker; captured at Island No. 10; 
died June, 1862. 

Willis Pillow; captured at Island No. 10; took 
oath in jjrison. 

Abner Potts. 

A. R. Potts; died July, 1862. 

Monroe Provine ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Carroll Ray. 

James K. Ray ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; served in 
cavalry. 

J. T. Ray. 

Matt Ray; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Wright Ray. 

John Rickman; captured at Island No. 10. 

— . — . Roach ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took oath 
in prson. 

Fisher Roach ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took oath 
in prison. 

— . — . Rose; captured at Island No. 10; took oath 
in prison. 

Dr. S. S. Sargent; discharged on account of weak 
eyes. 

John Smith ; captured at Island No. 10, and at At- 
lanta; served through the war. 

Lud Smith ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Dotson Smothermon; captured at Island No. 10; 
wounded at Atlanta and at Franklin. 

J. G. Smothermon ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Louis Smothermon; captured at Island No. 10; 
killed at Peach tree Creek. 



In Confederate States xIrmy. 209 

Bferry Stephens ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Jake Strobs; captured at Island No. 10; trans- 
ferred to Seventli Ken tuck y. 

Buck Sturdivaut; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Adley Taylor; captured at Island No. 10; killed on 
picket, July 20, 1864. 

Charlie T. Taylor; captured at Island No. 10. 

David Taylor; escaped at Island No. 10; died at 
home. 

Harvey Taylor; captured at Island No. 10. 

Herbert Taylor; captured at Island No. 10. 

Jack Taylor ; captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged, 
over age. 

Newt Taylor; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Thomas S. Valentine; captured at Island No. 10; 
discharged, ill health. 

M. Van B. Valentine; elected second lieutenant at 
reorganization ; wounded at Franklin ; served through 
the war. 

S. M. Vancleave; died at Macon, Ga., September 
5, 1864. 

W. H. Vandyck; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
charged, weak eyes. 

J. Brown Venable; died April, 1862. 

Ashley Weatherford. 

James W. Willis; captured at Island No. 10; djed 
January, 1863. 

James Wilson; captured at Island No. 10. 

M. E. Winters. 



14 



210 History of Henry County Commands 



Roll of ( \)MrANY ''E/ ' Forty-Sixth Re(umext, Ten- 
nessee iNFANTgY. 

Capt. William A. Tharpe; captured at Island No. 
10 ; re-elected at reoroanization ; detached on recruit- 
ing serAice, January, 1864. 

First Lieut. James C. Williams ; captured at Island 
No. 10 ; re-elected at reorganization, and detached on 
recruiting serAice. 

Second Lieut. Frank Barfield; escaped at Island 
No. 10. 

Third Lieut. S. W. Muzzell ; escaped at Island No. 
10. 

First Sergt. A. B. Futhey; captured at Island No. 
10. 

Second Sergt. Monroe Moody; captured at Island 
No. 10; took oath in prison. 

Fourth Sergt. G. H. Watkins; captured at Island 
No . 10 ; elected first sergeant at reorganization ; 
wounded at Atlanta; served through the war. 

First Corp. Isaac Akers; captured at Island No. 
10; discharged, over age. 

Eugene Boatwright (drummer) ; served through 
the war. 

Green Boden; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Charles Bonier; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Gaston Busbee; captured at Island No. 10; died 
in hospital. 

Green Cannon. 



In Confederate States Army. 211 

Jacob Cannon; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Pink Cannon; captured at Island No. 10. 

— . — . Casey. 

Wm. Casey. 

J. Y. Cole; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Marion Cole; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Robert Cole; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Thos. A. Cole; captured at Island No. 10; took 
oath in prison. 

James Cooney. 

Drake Cottrell; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Frank Dot}^; captured at Island No. 10; took oath 
in prison. 

Kin Doty ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took oath in 
prison. 

Henry Dowdy; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

John H. Ewing ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
ed at Atlanta and Franklin ; served through the war. 

Warren Foster; captured at Island No. 10; killed 
at Atlanta. 

Houston Fowler; captured at Island No. 10; 
served' through the war. 

Wm. Gibson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
tlirough the war. 

Pink Green; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

F. Marion Gregson; captured at Island No. 10; 
elected sergeant at reorganization ; wounded and cap- 
tured at Atlanta; served through the war. 



•212 History of Henry County Commands 

Solomon GriSvSom; captured at Island No. 10; died 
in prison. 

W. H. Haymes ; died April, 1862. 

Wm. Haynes; died at Island No. 10. 

James Harris; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
charged, ill health. 

McGowen Hastings. 

Wm. Hester; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

J. W. Hinson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

C. T. Hughes; died October 9, 1862. 

Thomas Hughes; captured at Island No. 10. 

John Jackson; escaped at Island No. 10. 

John Johnson; died January, 1862. 

Dock Jones; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Scid Lee; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Ben Lews; escaped at Island No. 10. 

J. H. Lowry; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
prison. 

Tobe Lowry; escaped at Island No. 10. 

C. C. Malone; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
charged. 

George Malone ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in 
prison. 

Lawrence Malone ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took 
oath in prison. 

J. Monroe Marshall; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

Samuel Mayfield ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Andrew McCampbell. 



In Confederate States Army. 213 

W. J. Moody; captured at Island 10; died in prison. 

Wm. Muzzell; died in hospital. 

Joe O'Daniel. 

Ed Palmer; captured at Island No. 10. 

James Palmer; captured at Island No. 10. 

Wash Palmer. 

James Perkins. 

Wm. Powell ; captured at Island No. 10 ; killed at 
Atlanta. 

Sumner Kadford; escaped at Island No. 10. 

— . — . Rider ; captured at Island No. 10. 

Daniel Smith. 

John Smith. 

James Swift. 

Peter Swift; discharged. 

Thomas B. Swift. 

Clay Trout; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Peter Wall. 

John Watkins; captured at Island No. 10; trans- 
ferred to the navy at Mobile ; served through the war. 

Robert Waters; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Joe Weatherby; captured at Island No. 10. 

James Webb. 

Wm. Webb. 

Jeff Workman. 

H. C. Williams; captured at Island No. 10; took 
oath in prison. 

John R. Williams; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

Capus Wilson; captured at Island No. 10; died at 
Mobile. 



214 History of Henry County Commands 

Henry Wright; discharged, ill health. 
Wm. J. Yarboro ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
through the war. 

Robert W.lii\)ung; escaped at Island No. 10. 



Roll of Company ''F/' Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. John C. Po^ner; captured at Island No. 10; 
discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. George W. 8cott; escaped at Island 
No. 10. 

Second Lieut. Brodie T. Howard; escaped at Is- 
land No. 10; re-enlisted in Company ^'K," Twentieth 
Tennessee Cavalry. 

Third Lieut. Miles F. Tyler; escaped at Island No. 
10. 

First Sergt. Wm. T. Sims; captured at Island No. 
10 ; elected captain at reorganization ; served through 
the war. 

Second Sergt. W." S. Jones; escaped at Island No. 
10. 

Third Sergt. J. Harvey Sims; captured at Island 
No. 10; died in prison June, 18G2. 

Fourth Sergt. Wes Callicutt; elected second lieu- 
tenant at reorganization; served through the war. 

Fifth Sergt. George Milliken; escaped at Island 
No. 10. 

First Corp. Pink Scott; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 215 

Second Corp. W. Logan Tharpe ; captured at Island 
No. 10 ; served tlirougli the war. 

Third Corp. LaFayette Bowden; killed at Island 
No. 10. 

Robert A. Acklin ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Jeff Ayr}^; transferred to Company ''K'\ 

Wm. Baldwin; captured at Island No. 10; took 
oath in prison. 

Henr}^ Baldwin ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; returned 
to regiment. 

Wm. Berry; escaped at Island No. 10|l 

John Buckley; escaped at Island No. w. 

L. H. Burton; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
charged, ill health. 

Anderson Byars; captured at Island No. 10; died 
at Port Hudson. 

Zack Byars; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Robert Caldwell; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Stephen Cantrell; escaped at Island No. 10; re- 
turned to regiment; died April, 1863. 

Carr Coleman ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Lewis Coleman; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Wm. Crews ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; returned to 
regiment; served through the war. 

Shelby Crittenden ; escaped at Island No. 10 . 

Thomas Crowder; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Wm. Crowder; captured at Island No. 10; elected 
first sergeant at reorganization; served through the 
war. 

James L. Dobbins; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 



216 History of Henry County Commands 

Frank Dumas; captured at Island Xo. 10; elected 
lieutenant at reorganization; killed at Atlanta. 

J. Evans; captured at Island No. 10; died August, 
1862. 

Warren Freeman; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Samuel Groomes ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Kichard Haley ; transferred to some other company. 

Wm. Harrell ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Bradford Hartsfield; captured at Island No. 10; 
died August, 1863. 

Anderson Hellard; escaped at Island No. 10. 

— . — . Hendricks. 

— . — . Hendricks. 

Alvius Hill ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Robert Howard ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
through the war. 

Wm. House ; captured at Island No. 10 ; transferred 
to company of sharpshooters; killed at Nashville. 

John Jenkins; died during the war. 

Wm. M. Jones; escaped at Island No. 10. 

R. S. Journey; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
prison, May 15, 1862. 

F. L. Key ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in prison 
July, 1862. 

Sea ton Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Thompson Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Wm. Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Rufus King; escaped at Island No. 10; returned 
to regiment ; left sick at Port Hudson ; fate unknown. 

Wm. E. Kirby ; -captured at Island No. 10 and at 
Port Hudson. 

Ab. Lampkins; escaped at Island No. 10. 



In Confederate States Army. 217 

Matthew Lampkins; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. * 

Robert Lampkins ; captured at Island No. 10. 

Louis Lafon ; discharged. 

F. M. Luter; escaped at Island No. 10. 

R. A. Luter: escaped at Island No. 10; returned to 
regiment; captured at Nashville; served through the 



war. 

Charles Marshall; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

M. Y. Maxwell ; transferred to Company ''D," Fifth 
Tennessee. 

Wm. S. McCall; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
in cavalry. 

John McMichael; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Euphrates Moore; captured at Island No. 10; died 
August, 1862. 

Newt Moore; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
in Twentieth Cavalry. 

Jeff W. Nicholls; captured at Island No. 10; died 
September, 1862. 

Ransom Nicholls; captured at Island No. 10 and 
at Nashville ; served through the war. 

Thomas Parham; escaped at Island No. 10; joined 
the Federals. 

Edward Powell; died of measles. 

S. O. Powell; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
prison, July, 1862. 

W. H. Powell; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Green Prince; escaped at Island No. 10; joined cav- 
alrv and was killed bv beino thrown from his horse. 



218 History of HExXRy County Commands 

Jolm Prince; escaped at Island No. 10; returned 
to re^t»iment ; served three and one-half years. 

Albert Kidgway; captured at Island Ko. 10; died 
during the war. 

Joe Ridgway; captured at Isalnd No. 10; served 
through the war. 

LaFayette Kidgway; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through tlie war. 

Calvin Edwards; escaped at Island No. 10. 

J. M. Scott; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Peter Scott; captured at Island No. 10; joined the 
Federals. 

J. Samuel Scott ; captured at Island No. 10 ; elected 
first sergeant at reorganization; served through the 
war. 

A. J. Sheridan; escaped at Island No. 10. 

George Sheridan ; ciiptured at Island No. 10 and at 
Nashville; served through the war. 

Henry Sheridan; captured at Island No. 10; es- 
caped at Cairo. 

John Sheridan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took 
oath in prison. 

Marion Sims; died at home on furlough. 

Ezekiel Somers; died during the war. 

AVm. Stephens ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

George Stewart; escaped at Island No. 10; served 
in Company ''H," Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry; wound- 
ed and lost an arm at Ilarrisburg. 

Thomas Stewart ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; served 
in Company ''H/' Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry. 



In Confederate States Army. 219 

W. F. Stiles; transferred to Company "D/' Fifth 
Tennessee. 

Harrison Sullers; escaped at Island No. 10. 

John Wade; captured at Island No. 10; lost sight 
of in Mississippi, October, 1862. 

John Webster; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Shadrach Webster; escaped at Island No. 10. 

K. W. Wiggins; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
charged, ill health. 

J. J. Wilkerson; captured at Island No. 10; died 
in prison, June, 1862. 

Elisha Winters; died at Island No. 10. 

John W. Winters; discharged, ill health. 



Roll of Company ''G," -Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. William B. Vancleave, Jr. ; captured at Is- 
land No. 10 ; discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. Robert Maddox; captured at Island 
No. 10; re-elected at reorganigation ; captured on re- 
cruiting service in Henr}^ County; served through 
the war. 

Second Lieut. Thomas Nicholls; escaped at Island 
No. 10. 

Third Lieut. James Hicks; captured at Island No. 
10; discharged at reorganization. 



220 History of Hekry County Commands 

First Sergt. — . — . Kasco; escaped at Island No. 
10; joiDed Federals. 

Second Sergt. F. Marion Hastings ; captured at 
Island No. 10; elected second lieutenant at reorgani- 
zation; captured on recruiting service; wounded at 
Atlanta and Bentonville, N. C. ; served through the 
war; present at surrender. 

James Boden. 

John Burnett; captured in Georgia. 

Zack Childers; joined the Federals. 

Wm. Childers; joined the Federals. 

Morrison Davis; captured at Island 'No. 10; took 
oath in prison. 

Columbus Dortch; escaped at Island No. 10. 

James Gately ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

T. Henry Greene; died at Island No. 10. 

Lud Grissom; died in hospital. 

Newt M. Grissom ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died 
in prison. 

Scott Holden; captured at Island No. 10; took 
oath in prison. 

Thomas Hughes; captured at Island No. 10; died 
in prison. 

Wm. Huie. 

Thomas Jenkins; died April, 1862. 

Wm. McCaskill ; served through the war. 

Robert McFarland. 

Wm. McGowen; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Daniel McKissick. 

Stephen Pierce. 

Peyton H. Randle; captured at Island No. 10; 
elected captain at reorganization. 



In Confederate States Army. 221 

Luke Redden. 

Henry Sexton. 

S. B.' Sproul. 

Jacob Straub; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Newton Vancleave ; wounded at Atlanta ; died Sep- 
tember, 1864. 

S. M. Vancleave; wounded at Atlanta; died at Ma- 
con, Ga., September 5, 1864. 

Nezor Vaughan ; escaped aT Island No. 10. 



Roll of Company "H," Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. J. M. Hannah; captured at Island No. 10; 
discharged at reorganization. 

First Lieut. W. D. Haynes ; captured at Island No. 
10; elected captain at reorganization. 

Second Lieut. W. L. Smith ; captured at Island No. 
10. 

Third Lieut. J. R. Anderson ; discharged, ill health. 

First Sergt. D. M. Lankford; captured at Island 
No. 10 ; discharged, ill health ; re-enlisted in Company 
<<E," Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry; wounded at 
Brice's Cross Roads; served through the war. 

Second Sergt. James McClintock. 

Third Sergt. T. J. Smith; died at home; 

J. T. Atkins. 



222 TIiSTORY OF Henry County Commands 

Tim Barliam; captured at Island Xo. 10; dis- 
cliarged, under age. 

Joe Baxter; captured at Island No. 10. 

Jasper Bird; captured at Island No. 10. 

James W. Bird; captured at Island No. 10; dis- 
charged, under age. 

Johnson Busbee; captured at Island No. 10; died 
in prison. 

Justin Busbee; died near Chattanooga. 

L. C. Cooper; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
prison. 

W. P. Covington ; captured at Island No. 10. 

Wm. Davis; captured at Island No. 10. 

Henry Dilda ; captured at Island No. 10. 

John Dill ; captured at Island No. 10 ; serA ed 
through the war. 

H. f'odge; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

J. N. Fowler; died at home. 

W. H. Fowler; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

H. Hannah ; killed at Atlanta. 

Wm. Hannah; captured at Island No. 10; killed at 
Atlanta. 

H. Hinson ; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

T. O. Jackson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

James Joiner. 

R. C. Jones; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 223 

Bob Jones; captured at Island No. 10; discharged, 
over age. 

T. E. Lawrence; discharged, over age. 

V. McAdoo; captured at Island No. 10; wounded 
while on picket at Atlanta and died. 

George McCain ; captured at Island No. 10 ; took 
oath in prison. 

John McCain ; died at home during the war. 

Kobert McCain ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
ed at Atlanta; served through the war. 

Wm. McCain; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. ( Only private of the company pres- 
ent at the surrender. ) 

Robert McClintock; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

Robert Patterson; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

Joseph P. Poe; captured at island No. 10; dis- 
charged, over age. 

Elijah Pruett; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

William Pruett; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

S. G. Ramey; captured at Island No. 10; died at 
Port Hudson, November 17, 1862. 

W. W. Randall; captured at Island No. 10; died 
in prison. 

J. R. Rogers; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
prison. 

Dan W. Rushing; captured at Island No. 10; died 
at Mobile. 



224 History of Henry County Commands 

J. B. Stuart ; elected third lieutenant, April, 1862 ; 
captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged-. 

Thomas F. Sullivan; died at Madrid Bend, Mo., 
April, 1862. 

E. P. Sullivan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in 
prison. 

M. Thompson ; died April 2, 1862. 

Henry Vancleave ; died November, 1862. 

John Vaughan; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

Perry Vaughan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
ed at Atlanta; served through the war. 

J. T. Watkins; captured at Island No. 10; trans- 
ferred to the Navy and captured; served through the 
war. 

L. W. Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; killed at 
Atlanta. 

Tiffus Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wounded 
at Atlanta and died. 

R. V. Wren; captured at Island No. 10; died in 
prison. 

W. C. Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; killed at 
Atlanta. 

Henry W. Wright ; captured at Island No. 10 ; dis- 
charged, over age. 

L. M. Young; died at Union City, January, 1862. 



In Confederate States Army. 225 



Roll of Company ''I/' Forty-Sixth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. Robert A. Owens; captured at Island No. 10; 
elected lieutenant colonel at reorganization; pro- 
moted to colonel ; wounded at Jackson, Miss. ; served 
through the war. 

First Lieut. John H. Williams ; captured at Island 
No. 10; discharged at reorganization. 
. Second Lieut. Isaac M. Hudson ; captured at Island 
No. 10 and again at home on recruiting service; ap- 
pointed adjutant at reorganization; served through 
the war. 

Third Lieut. W. P. Caldwell ; escaped at Island No. 
10. 

First Sergt. W. R. Williams; captured at Island 
No. 10. 

Second Sergt. M. L. Williams; escaped at Island 
No. 10. 

Third Sergt. W. D. Thompson; captured at Island 
No. 10 ; served three years. 

First Corp. J. B. Owens ; escaped at Island No. 10 ; 
served in Company ''F/' Twentieth Tennessee Cav- 
alry. 

J. W. Almond; died April 7, 1862. 

J. W. Atkerson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war ; present at the surrender. 

Richard Atkins. 

D. C. Caldwell ; died January 7, 1862. 

Anthony Cooper. 

Caldwell Cooper. 

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226 History of Henry County Commands 

Henry Cooper; escaped at Island No. 10; enlisted 
in cavalry. 

James Fowler; captured at Island No. 10; took 
oath in prison. 

Henry Griffin. 

J. M. Hays ; died April 1, 1863. 

W. E. Kino-; died February, 1862. 

D. C. Lee ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in prison. 

J. P. Lee; captured at Island No. 10; escaped from 
prison. 

H. C. Lee ; captured at Island No. 10 ; escaped. 

G. C. Lemonds; captured at Island No. 10. 

— . — . Scarl)oro. 

— . — . Scarboro. 

— . — . Thompson. 

Noali Thompson; escaped at Island No. 10; joined 
some other command and disappeared. 

D. M. L. Walker ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
through the war. 

Kichmond Walker; died at Island No. 10. 

J. Wesley Watkins. 

Wm. Watkins. 

Wm. Whitfield ; died July 30, 1862. 

Crofford Williams ; captured at Island No. 10 ; dis- 
charged, ill health. 

J. M. L. Williams; escaped at Island No. 10; died 
at home. 

R. D. Williams; captured at Island No. 10; died 
April 10, 1862. 

B. F. Wimberly; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Wm. W. Wimberly; escaped at Island No. 10;. 
served in cavalry and died. 



In Confederate States Army. 227 



KoLL OF Company ''K," Forty-Sixth Eegiment^ Ten- 
nessee Infantry. 

Capt. John D. Paschall ; captured at Island No. 10 ; 
re-elected at reorganization; wounded at Franklin; 
served tlirougli the war. 

First Lieut. Wyatt Yow; captured at Island No. 
10; discharged at reorganization. 

Second Lieut. Elisha Paschall; captured at Island 
No. 10; elected first lieutenant at reorganization; 
served through the war. 

Third Lieut. Robert D. Hendricks; captured at Is- 
land No. 10; elected second lieutenant at reorganiza- 
tion; detached and served as train inspector at Co- 
lumbus, Ga. ; wounded at Franklin and died Decem- 
ber 2, 1864. 

First Sergt. David Arnn; captured at Island No. 
10; took oath in prison and joined Federals. 

Matt. Ashlock ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

J. B. Atkins; discharged, ill health. 

Thomas Ayry; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Eugene Boatwright (drummer boy). 

Bloomfield Boden; captured at Island No. 10. 

Wm. Brisendine; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Jeff Butler; captured at Island No. 10. 

Henry Cochran ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wound- 
ed at Atlanta and died. 

Marsh Cole; discharged, ill health. 

Berry Ford; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Robert C. Foster ; captured at Island No. 10 ; elect- 



228 History of Henry County Commands 

ed third lieutenant at reorganization ; served through 
the war. 

Wm. Gallimore; escaped at Island Xo. 10. 

Porter Hill ; died of measles. 

Elias Holden ; died June 26, 1862. 

Jeff Jimmison; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Thompson Key; captured at Island No. 10.; died 
in prison. 

William Key; escaped at Island No. 10. 

John Mason ; captured at Island No. 10 ; died in 
hospital in Mississippi. 

Wright Mason; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

J. K. Polk Martin; captured at Island No. 10; 
elected first sergeant at reorganization; served 
through the war. 

T. H. Mathis ; died July 29, 1863. 

James Morton ; discharged, ill health. 

Frank Nance. 

Richard Nance; captured at Island No. 10. 

Wm. Nance ; captured at Island No. 10 ; discharged, 
over age. 

Bedford Orr ; captured at Island No. 10. 

Cyrus Orr; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

James Orr; captured at Island No. 10; killed at 
Atlanta. 

James Palmer; captured at Island No. 10; killed 
at Atlanta or Franklin. 

Thomas Paschall; captured at Island No. 10; lost 
sight of in Mississippi. 



In Confederate States Army. 229 

Samuel Pascliall; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

Wm. Kussell; discharged, ill health. 

V. D. Spradling; died April 2, 1862. 

Thomas Stephens; escaped at Island No. 10; re- 
turned to regiment; served through the war. 

Frank Stephens. 

— . — . Tharpe; wounded at Kennesaw Mountain. 

Wilson Thomason ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Linn Turner; served a jesiv in First Kentucky In- 
fantry; after its disbandment, enlisted in this com- 
pany ; killed at Atlanta. 

Loony Turner; escaped at Island No. 10. 

John H. Vaughan; captured at Island No. 10; 
served through the war. 

Perry Vaughan ; captured at Island No. 10 ; served 
through the war. 

E. T. Walker ; escaped at Island No. 10. 

Fred Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10. 

James Wilson; captured at Island No. 10; served 
through the war. 

W. C. Wilson; captured at Island No. 10. 

W. D. Wilson ; captured at Island No. 10 ; wounded 
and lost an arm and captured at Atlanta; served 
through the war. 

Henry Young; captured and died after exchange. 



230 History of Henry County Commands 



Sketch of Company '-G," Seventh Regiment^ Ten- 
nessee Cavalry. 

In the autumn of 1861, Capt. J. G. Stocks of Mem- 
phis, came to Par is, bringing with him a few men as a 
nucleus of a cavalry company which he announced his 
determination to form. The young cavaliers of Henry 
County flocked to his standard, and soon he had en- 
listed about one hundred men. These were mustered 
into the Confederate service and fully organized, and 
went into camp at the old fair grounds, one mile north- 
west of town, and were constantly drilled and trained 
till the last day of the year, when they marched to Co- 
lumbus, Ky., camping awhile at Poyner's Mill, and at 
Camp Beauregard, near Feliciana, Ky. Returning to 
Camp Beauregard they were joined by McCutchen's 
company, recently enlisted in Weakly county, and 
henceforth these two companies, forming a squadron, 
were closely allied during all the campaigns that fol- 
lowed. 

Uniting alsc with Miller's Mississippi Battallion 
and Colonel Brewer's, all under command of Colonel 
Miller, they followed a Federal force under General 
Smith, who had come out from Paducah, going as far 
as New Concord, Ky., and later reconnoitered along 
the Tennessee River. February 15th, 1862, while en- 
camped at Paris, Colonel Miller took the company on 
a reconnoisance in the direction of Ft. Heiman. When 
within one and a half miles of this place they came in 
sight of some Federals posted in a yard near Mt. Car- 
mel church. Withdrawing a short distance, and dis- 



In Confederate States Army. 



231 




.jgrm^, 



mounting, they formed and advanced in one rank and 
a sharp skirmish ensued. The small force soon retir- 
ing, placed out a rear guard. James Boyd, J. M. 
Fields and John Paschall were wounded. March 1st, 
the company was sent to Columbus, Ky., to destroy 
the stores left there on its evacuation by General 
Polk. Keturniug to Paris, Major King's Battalion 
and Stocks' and McCutchen's companies encamped a 
mile or more west of Paris, on the Dresden road, and 
were engaged in shipping 
all the supplies that could 
be secured from the sur- 
rounding country, sending 
them Southward by the 
Memphis & Ohio Railroad. 
On March — , Major King, 
who was in command at 
Paris, sent Rev. Asa Cox, 
in charge of a scouting 
party, consisting of C. W. 
Tandy and two other men, 
to secure information of 
the enemy's movements in 
the direction of Ft. Hei- 
man. Taking the Obion 
road, they met a negro 

man near Owens' Hill, from whom they learned that 
a column of Federals of all arms were en route to 
Paris by the Mouth of Sandy Road. Private Cox tried 
to get into this road in advance of the enemy at 
Wright's shop. Failing in this, he turned towards 
the Conyersville road. Reaching this he and Tandy 




REV. ASA COX. 



232 History of Henry County Commands 

exchanged horses with two citizens and pushed on at 
full speed. Beaching camp and giving the alarm, the 
Canfederates scarcely had time to form before the 
Federals, who had surprised and captured the pickets 
near Currier's Mill, appeared on the hill west of the 
Memphis & Ohio depot, and, unlimbering a section of 
artillery, commenced to shell the camp. 

^laj. King's force formed under cover of the timber, 
prepared an ambuscade and waited the evening's at- 
tack. The shelling ceased soon after and the cavalry 
advanced, but the plan of surprise was defeated by a 
drunken Confederate, who rose up and fired prema- 
turely. After a few rounds the enemy retired and 
took up their march back to Ft. Heiman. Lieut. John 
Yow and Private Glover of King's Battalion were 
killed. The Federals carried off several dead. The 
success of Private Cox's scout secured for him the 
confidence of the officers, and many times afterward 
he did valuable scouting. Major King - retired to 
Henry Station, where he continued to collect and 
ship all accessible supplies, and later to Humboldt, 
destroying the railroad as they fell back. 

April 1, 1862, the command was surprised in camp 
at Union City. Fell back in pretty good order to 
Trenton, losing most of their baggage, however. Here 
a regimental organization was effected May 24, 1862, 
Captain Stocks' Company becoming Company ^'G'^ 
and McCutchen's Company ^'H" of the Seventh Ten- 
nessee Cavalry. For the next fortnight they were 
employed in covering the withdrawal of Confederate 
forces from Ft. Pillow to North Mississippi, and were 



In Confederate States Army. 233 

within three miles of Memphis when that place sur- 
rendered. 

June 10, 1862, the regiment was permanently or- 
ganized by the election of William H. Jackson, col- 
onel; J. G. Stocks, lieutenant-colonel, and W. L. 
Duckworth, major. Lieut. F. F. Aden was promoted 
to Captain, Lieut. Benjamin M. Diggs to first lieuten- 
ant and Lieut. J. J. Blake to second lieutenant, and 
W. N. Grifiin to third lieutenant. The summer of 
1862 was spent in scouting in North Mississippi, and 
in August . General Armstrong advanced into West 
Tennessee with about 5,000 cavalry and attacked the 
enemy at Bolivar and Medon and fougKt a Federal 
Brigade at Britton's Lane, both sides retiring. 

September 29 the command moved to Holly Springs 
and thence advanced with Van Dorn and Price to at- 
tack Corinth. Companies ^'C and "H," forming the 
advance guard, served as pickets, scouts and couriers 
during that disastrous short campaign, and covered 
the retreat. On the second day these two companies 
built a temporary bridge over the Hatchie Kiver, by 
which the army was enabled to escape from the Fed- 
eral forces closing in from front and rear. They took 
part in Van Dorn's great cavalry dash to Grant's 
rear, capturing and destroying |5,000,000 or |6,000,- 
000 worth of stores at Holl}^ Springs and capturing 
2,500 prisoners. 

Advanced again into West Tennessee and fought at 
Davis' Mill, Middleton and Bolivar. At Davis' Mill, 
January 1, 1863, Lieut. Benjamin M. Diggs was mor- 
tally wounded while gallantly leading the company. 
Colonel Jackson having been made brigadier-general, 



234 



History of Henry County Commands 



Lieutenant-Colonel Stocks was promoted to colonel, 
and Major Duckworth to lieutenant-colonel. 

The spring and summer of 1863 was spent in guard- 
ing North Mississippi from 
incursions moving out 
from Memphis, and the 
whole territory from Jack- 
son, Miss., to the M. & C. 
Railroad was traversed in 
various directions and at 
various times. 

From January 1, 1862, to 
August of the same year 
Company ''G," Seventh 
Tennessee Cavalry, 
ma relied from ten to fifty 
miles each twenty-fpur 
hours, and drilled on foot 
in the morning and on 
.horseback in the evening, 
whenever time could be found. The scarcity of cav- 
alry in the West rendered this hard service necessary. 
In May or June they engaged in a running fight 
near Hernando with a Federal detachment, with no 
casualties, but fifteen or twenty Federals were killed 
and wounded. 

To detail minutely all the movements of the Sev- 
enth Cavalry would be beyond the scope of this his- 
tory, so it will only be possible to refer to many occur- 
rences in a general way and specifically only where 
Company ^'G" performed a conspicuous part. Early 
in the fall of 1863, Colonel Stocks resigned on account 




LIEUT. B. M. DIGGS. 



In Confederate States Army. 235 

of failing health, and Lieutenant-Colonel Duckworth 
was promoted to colonel, and some time later Capt. 
C. C. Clay was advanced to the position of major. 
Early in October Col. T. H. Bell, formerly of the 
Twelfth Tennessee Infantry, was sent to West Ten- 
nessee, within the Federal lines, to collect and bring 
out recruits, and Company ^^G" was detached to ac- 
company him, doing excellent but hard service, and 
with a few other troops were enabled by General For- 
rest's skillful management and hard fighting by his 
troops to successfully escort about 1,800 recruits 
through the cordon of Federal troops along the M. & 
C. Kailroad. Henceforth they had a general in whose 
ability they had implicit trust. Late in February, 
1864, Generals Smith and Grierson advanced from 
Memphis with a force of 7,000 men to destroy the 
Mobile & Ohio Railroad and pillage the rich prairie 
country along its route. Col. Jeff Forrest's Brigade 
(to which the Seventh Tennessee belonged) met their 
advance at Egypt Station and stubbornly resisted 
and checked its forward movement, falling back to 
Soonkatonchee Creek, four miles south of West Point, 
where it was attacked by a superior force, which it 
fought for two or three hours. General Forrest says 
of this fight that "about 300 men of the Second and 
Seventh Tennessee received repeated charges of seven 
regiments of the enemy in open ground and drove 
them back every time, finally driving them from 
the field, capturing three stands of colors and one 
piece of artillery. A great deal of the fighting was 
almost hand to hand." 

These Confederate forces, reinforced by others, fol- 



236 History of Henry County Commands 

lowed them as they retreated and came upon them ten 
miles from Pontotoc, where they attempted to .make 
a stand, and charged the Second and Seventh Regi- 
ments in three lines, but these regiments, though 
nearly out of ammunition, repulsed them and drove 
back each line in succession. ^'Standing firm," Gen- 
eral Forrest says, '^they repulsed the grandest cav- 
alry charge I ever witnessed.'' The retreat of the 
enemy now became a rout, but the Confederates were 
nearly out of ammunition and too nearly exhausted 
to press the pursuit vigorously. 

On the night of the 22d, General Forrest instructed 
Captain Aden to send a commissioned officer and 
twenty-five or thirty men to harass the enemy and 
keep them frightened till morning, and to send cou- 
riers back to bring up the command. This was suc- 
cessfully and faithfully performed, but the records 
omit the names of those who performed this trying 
and praiseworthy service. 

In the month of March, General Forrest again en- 
tered West Tennessee, this time making his entree 
near Purdy. Capt. F. F. Aden, with his company, 
was detached to escort Tennessee's Governor (Isham 
G. Harris) to Paris, Tenn., to visit his family. Near 
Mansfield they encountered a battalion of Federals 
and a spirited engagement took place. The Federal 
force retired with the loss of two killed, including 
their major, and several wounded. Company ''G" had 
two wounded. The company numbered only forty 
men. Returning from Paris the company rejoined 
the regiment at Trenton. 

While General Forrest took the main command to 



History of Henry County Commands 237 

attack Paducah, he ordered Colonel Duckworth to 
proceed to Union City with the Seventh Tennessee, 
Twelfth Kentucky and McDonald's Battalion and 
capture the Federal force there. Colonel Duckworth 
found it strongly fortified, but by a display of force 
and a clever ruse influenced Col. Isaac E. Hawkins, 
commanding, to surrender his force, after some sharp 
skirmishing. Seven hundred prisoners, many horses 
and much army stores were the fruits of this capture. 

While the attack and capture of Ft. Pillow was 
being made the Seventh was stationed at Randolph 
to prevent any reinforcements being sent from Mem- 
phis to the relief of that place. The regiment, after 
camping a few days at Jackson, Tenn., returned with 
the other cavalry to North Mississippi. 

June 10 they moved from Baldwin to Brice's X 
Roads to repel the second attempt to capture the Con- 
federate cornfields of Eastern Mississippi and imme- 
diately charged the enemy over a broad field and then 
through tangled brushwood and, though stubbornly 
resisted, drove them back, and with the aid of other 
commands, soon turned the defeat into a rout, and 
pressed the Federals far into the night, only halting 
when thoroughly exhausted. Company ^'G'' lost two 
of its bravest and best men in this battle. Dr. Thomas 
C. Simmons and Frank Wakeland and several were 
also wounded, among them Capt. F. F. Aden. A month 
later the Federals made another attempt to reach 
the rich grain-producing region called Egypt, this 
time getting as far as Harrisburg, west of Tupelo. 
Being confronted by Confederates under command 
of Gen. S. D. Lee, they fortified, and General Lee 
made the mistake of attacking them in their in- 



238 History of Henry County Commands 



trenchments, instead of flanking them, as could 

have been easily done. 
After heavy fighting for 
nearly two days the enemy 
again retreated towards 
^Memphis. The Confeder- 
ates pursued, but were not 
in condition to press them 
as rapidly as at Okolona 
and Brice's X Roads. Com- 
pany "G" entered the eng- 
gagement with twenty- 
seven men. Only eleven of 
these escaped unhurt. 
Lieut. James Haynes, Mor- 
ris Womack, Reuben Yan- 
dyck and S. Fields were 
killed and others wounded. 
September 16, 1864, Gen- 
eral Forrest started into 
North Alabama and Middle Tennessee, with the pur- 
pose of cutting General Sherman's line of communica- 
tions. Crossing the Tennessee River at Colbert's 
Shoals, and striking the Nashville & Decatur Rail- 
road at Athens, captured the forces guarding it, thence 
to near Pulaski, and destroyed many trestles and 
bridges. The Seventh Regiment bore its part nobly 
in this arduous and dangerous work. At Athens 
Lieut. J. J. Blake was desperately wounded. The nu- 
merous Federal columns sent to intercept Forrest 
were now converging upon him, and he was compelled 
to retire with his small force. Reaching the Ten- 




CAPT. F. F. ADEN. 



In Confederate States Army. 



239 



nessee River it was found so swollen as to be unford- 
able, and the means of ferriage was so limited that 
the enemy was closing 
upon him before his com- 
mand could be crossed. To 
the Seventh Regiment was 
again awarded the hazard- 
ous task of keeping them at 
bay till the river could be 
placed between the main 
body and, the swiftly ad- 
vancing enemy. The ever 
gallant Seventh retired 
slowly, doggedly contesting 
every inch of ground. But 
when the safety of their 
comrades was assured it 
was impossible to cross 
in the face of the watch- 
ful Federals. Capt. H. C. McCutchen of Com- 
pany ^^H" was the senior officer present, and after a 
hjLirried council of the officers, it was decided that 
each company commander should seek to escape with 
his command in whatever direction they might sever- 
ally think best. Strange to say that each company re- 
maining intact succeeded in making its escape with- 
out the loss of a man. The river was crossed at va- 
rious places and the regiment rendezvoused at Jack- 
son, Tenn. 

October 22 General Forrest started on his raid to 
the Tennessee River via Paris to Paris Landing, at 
which place and at old Ft. Heiman three transports 




LIEUT. J. J. BLAKE. 



240 History of Henry County Commands 

and a gunboat were captured and a supply of much- 
needed clothing and shoes obtained. They marched 
thence to a point opposite Johnsonville, where artil- 
lery was mounted under cover of night and next even- 
in«' shells and hot shot were thrown across the river 
with such success that everything combustible was 
destroyed, including three gunboats, eleven trans- 
ports, eighteen barges and warehouses and military 
stores to the amount of about |8,000,000. General 
Hood was now at Florence, Ala., on his way into Mid- 
dle Tennessee, and the cavalry again crossed the 
river, the Seventh Tennessee and Forrest's old regi- 
ment at PerryAille, and to them was again given the 
post of honor and danger as advance guard. 

At Henryville, Summertown, Mt. Pleasant, General 
Polk's farm and at Columbia they fiercely attacked 
and drove back the Federals. On November 28 the 
brigade (Rucker's) crossed Duck River, seven miles 
east of Columbia, and pushed the Federal rear guard 
back to Franklin. In that bloody and disastrous en- 
gagement the Seventh was on the extreme left and 
drove back the advance forces to the main defenses. 
Early on November 1 they were again in the advance 
and following close on the heels of the Federals to 
Nashville. When General Thomas assumed the of- 
fensive on December 14 our lines were cut in two and 
the Seventh nearly hemmed in between the Federals 
and the Cumberland River. Keeping a bold front to 
the enemy, they slowly retired on the Harding pike 
till night, and next day rejoined the main force at 
Franklin and, with the other cavalry- commands, 
strengthened by Brown's provisional division, pro- 



In Confederate States Army. 241 

teeted the rear of Hoods stricken and decimated army 
till it had placed the Tennessee River again between 
themselves and their pursuers. 

When General Wilson started from Decatur, Ala., 
on his successful and destructive raid in Alabama 
with 22,000 cavalry and General Forrest prepared as 
best he could to meet it, the Seventh Tennessee was 
at West Point, Miss., and formed a part of Gen. A. W. 
Campbell's Brigade, and they were at once (March 
27, 1865) put in motion towards Selma, Ala., Wil- 
son's objective point. On the 31st they encountered 
LaGrange's Brigade eighteen miles east of Tuscaloosa 
and skirmished with them on that and succeeding 
day, dri\ang them back fifteen miles. Later in the 
day they came up with ('roxton's and drove them back, 
making important captures, but the Federal forces, 
having crossed the Cahaba River and burned ^the 
bridge, further pursuit was impossible. 

Forrest assembled the remnants of his redoubtable 
cavalry at Gainesville, Ala., and under agreement be- 
tween his superior and the Federal General Canby 
the surrender of his forces took place, April 12, 1865. 
The horses in the Confederate army being furnished 
and owned by the men who rode them, were exempted 
in the surrender of equipment, and thus the cavalry- 
men rode home, and hitching their steeds to their 
father's plows, went back to the corn and cotton fields 
from which they had enlisted three and one-half years 
previously. 

Of the 161 men enlisted in Company ^^G" there were 
present at the surrender thirty men. Their names 
will be found noted on the roll following this sketch. 

16 



242 History of Heney County Commands 

No braver troop or more daring escort followed the 
chivalric Forrest, who commanded the best cavalry 
the world has ever seen. 



Roll of Company "G," Seventh Regiment^ Tennes- 
see Cavalry. 

Capt J. G. Stocks ; elected lieutenant-colonel at or- 
ganization; promoted to colonel spring of 1863; 
wounded in Mississippi; resigned on account of ill 
health, October, 1863. 

First Lieut. Felin F. Aden ; promoted to captain, 
June 10, 1863; wounded at Brice's X Roads; served 
through the war; one of thirty present at surrender. 

Second Lieut. J. J. Blake ; wounded at Athens, Ala. ; 
served through the war. 

Third Lieut. Benjamin M. Diggs; promoted to sec- 
ond lieutenant, June 10, 1863; mortally wounded at 
Davis' Mill, October, 1863. 

First Sergt. William M. Griffin; elected third lieu- 
tenant at reorganization ; discharged. 

Second Sergt. Pleas J. Diggs; served through the 
war. 

Third Sergt. W. A. Wright; promoted to orderly 
sergeant ; served through the war ; one of thirty pres- 
ent at surrender. 

Fourth Sergt. — . — . Culberhouse ; served one year. 



In Confederate States Army. 24B 

First Corp. Thomas Diggs; wounded at Franklin; 
served through the war. 

Second Corp. J. J. Bishop ; served in Company '^E," 
Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. - 

Third Corp. William H. Courts ; wounded and died. 

Fourth Corp. Henry A. Humphreys; elected first 
sergeant, 1863 ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
present at surrender. 

James S. Aden; elected first sergeant at reorgan- 
ization, 1862; captured near Grenada, December,. 
1862; discharged, 1863. 

John D. Aden ; served through the war. 

Van Alexander ; elected sergeant at reorganization ; 
died at hospital in Mississippi. 

John E. Anderson ; served through the war ; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

William Archer ; joined the Federals after one year. 

S. P. Atkisson; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

B. F. Ballard ; corporal at reorganization ; captured 
at Corinth, Miss., October, 1862. 

Joe Beard, died in 1862, on furlough at home. 

Sam Beard, served through the war; one of thirty 
present at surrender. 

— . — . Beard ; killed at Fort Pillow. 

Buck Bell ; served one year. 

T. N. Bell. 

Jack Biles; killed at Athens, Ala. 

John W. Blythe ; served one year. 

James M. Blake; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

L. A. Blake ; served through the war. 



244 History of Henuy County Commands 

Mack Blake ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
present at surrender. 

Wilson Blake ; discharged, ill health. 

James H. Blanchett; wounded at Shiloh in throat 
and coughed up the ball ; served one year. 

John W. Blythe ; served one year. 

James Bowden ; served one year. 

Alex Bowles ; served about a year. 

James M. Boyd ; wounded and captured at Mt. Car- 
mel Church and escaped. 

W. Monroe Brisendine ; served one year. 

William Brisendine. 

Pearl Bridges ; served one year. 

Porter Bridges ; served one year. 

F. M. Brogden ; served through the war. 

Charlie Burton ; captured at Corinth, October, 1862. 

T. Jeff Burton ; wounded and lost arm in service. 

Arch Carter ; served one year. 

Dick Caton. 

George T. Caton ; served about a year. 

James H. Chiles; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

James Coff man ; served one year. 

William Coffman; served through the war. 

T. T. Coleman ; wounded at Okalona ; died February 
22, 1864. 

James E. Collins ; served about a year. 

Kichard Collins; served one year. 

J. D. Cook ; served one year. 

Zack Cook ; served one year. 

James M. Courcy; served through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 245 

Kev. Asa Cox ; scout ; discharged as minister, Octo- 
ber, 1863. 

Meshech M. Cox; wounded at Nashville; served 
through the war; one of thirty present at surrender. 

Hart Crutchfield ; served one year. 

Fox Dalton; served through the war. 

William Daniel; died at Irby Mills, Miss., January 
7, 1864. 

Ben Darby ; served one year. 

James M. Douglass (blacksmith) ; served through 
the war; one of thirty present at surrender. 

James Duncan ; served one year. 

B. A. Dunlap ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
present at surrender. 

W. Fletcher Etheridge; wounded at Mansfield, 
Tenn. 

Harrison Fields; served one year. 

J. W. Fields ; wounded at Mt. Carmel Church ; died 
in Mississippi. 

R. M. Gilbert; wounded at Davis' Mill; served 
one year. 

Thomas Granger. 

I. K. Grogan; served one year. 

Thomas H. Grubbs ; served through the war ; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

James Gwinn; went home sick after a year's ser- 
vice. 

J. K. Polk Harmon; captured at Duck Hill, Miss., 
and paroled. 

G. L. Harris ; served a short while. 

James Haynes; promoted to lieutenant; killed at 
Harrisburg. 



246 History of Heney County Commands 

Sam Haynes; served about two years. 

Richard Holt; served through the war. 

Pleas J. Howard ; served oue year. 

Porter Howard; served one year. 

N. S. Hicks ; served one year. 

Richard Hicks ; served one year. 

George Hudspeth ; served one year. 

Wes M. Humphreys ; promoted to lieutenant ; served 
through the war. 

William Hutchins; discharged, over age. 

James Jenkins ; served one year. 

Monroe Jenkins; served one year. 

William Jenkins; served one year. 

Felix F. Johnson; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

John Jones ; served through the war. 

Clint Kelsoe; served about a year. 

C. H. Koen ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
present at surrender. 

— . — . Koen ; served about a year. 

David Lemonds; discharged, ill health. 

John Linton; died at hospital in Mississippi, June 
17, 1863. 

E. T. Looney ; served one year. 

Jesse Looney ; served through the war. 

James Louden ; served one year. 

Richard Lumbrick ; served one year. 

Newton E. Manly ; served through war. 

James Martin ; served one year. 

J. K. Polk Martin ; served through the war. 

Jno. Watt Martin ; served one year. 

Wm. C. Martin ; served one year. 



In Confederate States Army. 247 

Wm. W. McConnell ; served through the war. 

John McConnell ; served a short while. 

Clem. C. McDearmon ; served one year. 

Kobt. J. McFarland ; captured on furlough. 

Wm. H. McFarland ; captured on furlough. 

John W. McGehee ; served through the war ; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

Wm. P. Melton ; served one year. 

— . — . Milam ; died in hospital in Mississippi. 

Pleas Miller ; served about one year. 

Wm. H. Miller ; served about one year. 

Joe Moore; discharged, ill health. 

Henry T. Morris; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

Wm. D. Morris; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

Jas. Neal; served about one year. 

James Nunn ; served one year. 

James Olive; wounded in Mississippi. 

James Page; died at Trenton of measles in 1862. 

John Paschall ; wounded at Mt. Carniel church ; cap- 
tured and escaped. 

Littleton Perry ; served one year. 

George Poore; served one year. 

Howard Poyner; captured while serving in Tenth 
Tennessee Cavalry, and escaped, and served awhile 
in Company "G.'^ 

Jno. B. Eainey ; served about one year. 

Geo. Renf roe ; served oiie year. 

Jack Renf roe ; served one year. 

— . — . Reynolds ; perhaps captured at Paris. 

John Rigsby ; served one year. 



248 History of Henry County Commands 

Samuel liigsby; served a rear or more. 

AV. Matt. Rowe; served a short while. 

Johu Rushing; discharged, ill health, 1862. 

James Seawright ; served one year. 

J. Logan Seawright; served one year. 

Wm. Seawright ; served one year. 

— . — . Scarboro; wounded at Guntown. 

Hugh Shipley; served about one year. 

Britt Simmons ; served one year. 

Dr. Thos. C. Simmons ; killed at Brice's crossroads. 

James Stone ; served about one year. 

Billie Stubblefield; served through the war. 

Watson Stubblefield ; wounded at Mansfield. 

Wm. Stubblefield ; served one 3^ear. 

S. B. Sproul; discharged, ill health. 

Chas. W. Tandy; Avounded near Tupelo; served 
though the war ; one of the thirty present at surrender. 

Thos. H. Tayloe; enlisted and commanded Com- 
pany "D,'' Nineteenth Cavalry. 

Rufus H. Todd ; served about one year. 

Jno. S. VanDyck; captured; served through the 
war. 

Reuben VanDyck; wounxled at Brice's crossroads; 
died ten days later. 

Will O. VanDyck ; served through the war. 

Alex Wade ; served one year. 

Frank Wakeland; killed at Brice's crossroads. 

J. H. Walker ; wounded at Qkalona. 

]M orris Warnock ; killed at Harrisburg. 

Alex Wesson ; killed at Athens, Ala. 

— . — . Wheeler ; served about one year. 



In Confederate States Army. 249 

J. T. Wilkins; served through the war; one of 
thirty present at surrender. 

Jno. H. Wright ; served about two years. 

S. C. Wright ; served through the war ; one of thirty 
present at surrender. 

— . — . Yarborough; wounded at Guntowu, Miss. 

Thos. J. Yates ; served one year. 



Sketch of Companies '^I" and '^K/' Tenth Regi- 
ment, Tennessee Cavalry. 

During the summer of 1862, tlie Federal commander 
at Ft. Heiman (Col. Lowe of the Fifth Iowa Cav- 
alry), issued orders requiring every man in Henry 
County to come to the fort and take the oath of alle- 
giance to the United States, and announced that the 
failure to comply with this requirement would sub- 
ject the offender to arrest and imprisonment. Most 
of the older men with families dependent upon them, 
realizing that they must forsake their loved ones and 
flee south, go to prison or comply, decided to take 
what seemed to them the least of three evils, and took 
the oath. The younger men, however, and especially 
those who had served a year under the stars and bars, 
were not as a rule willing to transfer their allegiance 
to the government they had sworn to oppose, and 
man;/ of them mounted their horses, crossed the Ten- 
nessee river and took refuge among the hills of 



250 History of Henry County Commands 

Humphreys and other counties in middle Tennessee, 
where they found many others seeking an asylum. 
These hardy spirits naturally gravitated toward each 
other and soon formed themselves into companies, 
first as 'Tartisan Rangers," and later as regular mili- 
tary commands. 

On the 25th day of August, 1862, five of these com- 
panies rendezvoused at Waverly and organized a bat- 
talion, with T. H. Napier as lieutenant-colonel. One 
of these companies was commanded by the redoubtable 
Capt. D. F. Alexander, formerly a subaltern in the 
Fifth Infantry, and many of his men were from Henry 
County. About this time another battalion was formed 
in Hickman and Perry Counties. One of these com- 
panies was in command of Capt. Thos. Fletcher, with 
Clinton Aden as first lieutenant, who afterwards be- 
came its captain. Some of this company was also from 
Henry County. Lieutenant-Colonel Napier, who was 
a very brave man, did valuable service with his bat- 
talion in obstructing the navigation of the Tennessee 
River, and at one time capturing three Federal 
steamers at the mouth of Cypress Creek with two 
pieces of light artillery. At another time he attacked 
and defeated a Federal column near Waverly, which 
had been sent out to endeavor to drive him away or 
capture him. Major Cox's Battalion did much of the 
same kind of service between the mouth of Duck River 
and Savannah. 

When General Forrest made his first raid into West 
Tennessee, in December, 1862, both these battalions 
were ordered to accompany the expedition, and shared 
all the dangers and exposures of the campaign. At 



In Confederate States Army. 



251 



Parker's Cross Roads Lieutenant-Colonel Napier and 
others. were killed and several wounded. 

After a few days rest the expedition against Fort 
Donelson was undertaken. The command fought 
valiantly; but the Federals were so thoroughly forti- 
fied that the attack failed with considerable loss. The 
fearless Capt. D. F. Alex- 
ander fell dangerously 
wounded in the very fore- 
front. Henry Ridley lay 
down in front of his strick- 
en captain and shielded 
him from further danger. 
When ordered to retire his 
men bore him to a house 
to be cared for, where he 
was captured and impris- 
oned. 

Returning to Columbia, 
Napier's and Cox's Battal- 
ions were united and 
formed the Tenth Tennes- 
see Cavalry. N. N. Cox was made colonel ; E. B. Treze- 
vant, lieutenant-colonel, and W. E. Demoss major. 
Colonel Trezevant was soon afterwards killed in a 
sharp fight at Thompson's Station. Major Demoss 
was promoted to lieutenant-colonel, and Capt John 
Minor to major. During Forrest's chase of Streight's 
Raiders the Tenth Cavalry held the line of Town 
Creek to prevent reinforcements advancing from the 
direction of Corinth. They were soon after sent to 
East Tennessee and placed under Gen. Joe Wheeler. 




CAPT. D. F. ALEXANDER. 



252 History of Henry County Commands 

While crossing the Holstoii River at Kingston, in 
August, 1863, using an old leaky ferry boat, it sank 
with a boatload of men. Newt Bowden of Company 
^'F,'' and Martin Bevil and James McCorkle of Com- 
pany' ''K'' and two others (none of whom could swim) 
were drowned. D. I). Brisendine of Company "I," 
William Greer of Company ''K'' and several others 
saved themselves by swimming out. 

In September the Tenth fell back towards Chatta- 
nooga, covering the right wing of the army. 

Upon the investment of Chattanooga by General 
Bragg, they were sent back to East Tennessee and 
fought under General Dibbrell at Philadelphia, led 
Longstreet's advance to Knoxville, fought around 
that city and covered his retirement towards Virginia. 
At General Watkins' farm near Mossy Creek Station, 
January 4, 1864, while on picket, Lieut. Howard 
Poyner, Dillard Poyner, H. A. Boden, J. F. Bushart, 
D. D. Brisendine, W. P. Erwin and Henry Diggs 
were captured. The two former of these escaped by 
jumping from the train while in motion near Nash- 
ville. 

The Tenth Regiment spent the winter of 1863-4 in 
arduous campaigning in upper East Tennessee, and 
then transferred to Dal ton in the early spring. To 
accomplish this it was necessary to make a long de- 
tour through the mountains of western North Caro- 
lina. During the summer of 1864 the Tenth helped 
to protect the flanks and cover the rear of Johnson's 
army from Dalton to Atlanta, and were under fire 
almost every day. 

Wl)ile the infantry were resting after the fall of 



In Confederate States Army. 253 

Atlanta, they accompanied Wheeler on his raid to 
Sherman's rear and destroyed part of the railroad as 
far as Knoxville, Tenn., burning much valuable prop- 
erty and stores of the enemy. 

They crossed the Cumberland Mountains and dam- 
aged the Nashville and Chattanooga railroad between 
Bridgeport and Nashville, and the Nashville and De- 
catur railroad, and at Mount Pleasant, being near 
the homes of many of the regiment, they were fur- 
loughed and allowed to visit their loved ones, whom 
they had not seen for two long years. 

They rendezvoused at Milan and joined Forrest, 
and with his command preceded Hood's advance into 
Middle Tennessee, fought in the battles and skir- 
mishes of that disastrous campaign and retreated with 
the army as part of the rear guard to North Alabama. 

Reporting at Corinth, Miss., the Tenth was con- 
solidated with the Sixteenth Tennessee Cavalry and 
renumbered the Twenty-First. Col. A. N. Wilson of 
the old Sixteenth was placed in command. 

It was attached to Bell's Brigade of Jackson's Di- 
vision. 

It did hard marching and fighting in the spring of 
1865, in trying to arrest the progress of Wilson's 
hosts marching on Selma, Ala., but was prevented 
from reaching that point by high water and the de- 
struction of bridges, and nothing was left for them 
to do but surrender, which they did at Gainesville, 
Ala., and scattered to their several homes. 

During the two and a half years of its service Com- 
pany "K" participated in more than a hundred en- 



254 History of Henry County Commands 

gagements. Its casualties amounted to twenty-five 
per cent of its members. 

On the last campaign they were cut up into detach- 
ments and fought wherever and whenever the enemy 
was met, and were surrendered at sundry places and 
in squads and companies. 



EoLL OF Henry County Members of Company "I," 
Tenth Regiment Tennessee Cavalry. 

Capt. Clinton Aden; served through the war. 

Second Lieut. Howard Poyner; captured at Mor- 
ristown, Tenn., and escaped by jumping from train. 

First Sergt. Will Owensby; wounded and captured 
at Parker's Cross Roads. 

Second Sergt. James F. Bushart; captured at Mor- 
ristown, Tenn. ; served through the war. 

Thomas Barnes ; served through the war. 

Hud A. Boden; captured at Morristown, Tenn., 
January, 1864; served through the war. 

Newt Bowden; drowned at Kingston, Tenn., Au- 
gust, 1863. 

D. D. Brisendine ; captured at Parker's Cross Roads 
and escaped ; rejoined regiment at LaGrange Furnace ; 
served through the war. 

Henry Diggs; served through the war. 

W. Pink Erwin; captured at Morristown and pa- 



In Confederate States Army. 255 

roled in prison; served in Lyons' escort; captured in 
Henry County in January, 1865. 

Wm. Greer. 

A. Thomas Milliken; served through the war. 

Bart V. Owensby; served through the war. 

E. P. (Doc) Owensby; served through the war. 

Dillard Poyner; captured at Morristown, and es- 
caped by jumping from train. 

Henry Kose; served awhile with the company. 

John Eose. 



EoLL OF Henry County Members of Company '^K/' 
Tenth Eegiment Tennessee Cavalry. 

Capt. D. F. Alexander; captured at Ft. Donelson, 
1863. 

Second Lieut. J. Oscar Penick ; served through the 
war. 

First Sergt. Wm. J. Bowden; wounded in East 
Tennessee; served through the war. 

Second Sergt. Wm. A. Dillahunty; transferred 
from Fifth Tennessee Infantry, August, 1863; served 
through the war. 

Samuel A. Allen; transferred to Company "I," 
Fifth Tennessee (which see.) 

Martin Bevil; drowned at Kingston, Tenn., August, 
1863. 

Eobert H. Breedlove; served through the war. 

Varner Caldwell; lost sight of at Parker's Cross 
Eoads. 



256 History of Henry County Commands 

James M. Carter; wounded at Parker's Cross 
Roads ; served through the war. 

Mart L. Cate; killed near Spring Hill, Tenn., in 
the spring of 1863. 

W. H. Green ; captured scouting in Henry County, 
Tenn., December 29, 1862 and paroled; served 
through the war. 

Wm. H. Greer ; served through the war. 

y\'m. B. Greer; served through the war. 

Jas. A. Haymes; detached in 1861; was the only 
one of the company in the battle of Franklin; served 
through the war. 

John D. Looney ; captured in East Tennessee, latter 
part of 1863, and probably paroled. 

Jas. McCorkle; drowned at Kingston, Tenn., in the 
summer of 1863. 

B. F. Mclntyre; wounded and lost a leg near Dan- 
dridge, Tenn. 

J. Mitchell Milam; served through the war. 

J. T. (Tice) Palmer; served through the war. 

James Scott ; died in the spring of 1863, at Waverly, 
Tenn. 

Else Workman; captured scouting between Hunt- 
ington and Paris, December 29, 1863 ; served in Com- 
pany ''E," Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry. 

The four following named men joined the company 
after consolidation with the Sixteenth Tennessee Cav- 
alry : 

J. Polk Cate; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

Manly Hannah; served through the war; present 
at surrender. 



In Confederate States Army. 257 

James M. Todd; served through the war; present 
at surrender. 

Ed H. Todd; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 



Companies ''F,/' ''F/ 

SEE Cavalry. 

General Forrest, during his raid into West Ten- 
nessee, in December, 1862, so effectually destroyed 
the Mobile & Ohio Railroad, between Corinth and 
Union City, that the Federals never attempted its 
rehabilitation, and the army posts along its line were 
soon abandoned; and though the M. & C. Railroad 
was still held and operated, the interior of West Ten- 
nessee was virtually free from the bands of thieves 
and outlaws (in the name of Federal soldiers) which 
had infested it.' Emboldened by this favorable condi- 
tion. Gen. T. H. Bell, formerly colonel of the Twelfth 
Tennessee Infantry, boldly entered West Tennessee 
and began recruiting for the Confederate Army. 

In December, 1863, General Forrest having been 
assigned to command of the Cavalry Department of 
North Mississippi and West Tennessee, instructed 
General Bell to collect all the recruits at Jackson, 
Tenn., and then with what forces he could assemble, 
pushed his way through the cordon of Federal posts 
stretched from Memphis to Corinth, and by hard 
17 



258 History of Henry County Commands 

marchino:, fierce fighting and fatigueing labor, build- 
ing bridges across the swollen streams, etc., succeeded 
in safely escorting these new levies, amounting to 
about 1,800 men, to his camps in North Mississippi. 

By combining and transferring and organizing, 
these raw recruits were speedily organized into com- 
panies and regiments. Three of these companies were 
composed mainly of Henry County men, and were 
placed in Col. R. M. Russell's regiment and numbered 
the Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry (though in Lins- 
ley's Annals of Tennessee it is sometimes called the 
Fifteenth). Colonel Russell had served as colonel 
of the Twelfth Tennessee Infantry. Lieut. Col. H. 
C. Greer had been a lieutenant in Company "I," Fifth 
Tennessee Infantry, and Maj. H. F. Bowman had 
filled the position of captain of Company '^B" of the 
same regiment, both of the latter being Henry County 
men. Capt. W. D. Hallum of Company "E" was a 
veteran of the Mexican War, and had commanded 
Company ''I'' of the Fifth Infantry until its reorgani- 
zation. His company of cavalry was recruited from 
the southern portion of Henry Ceunty where he had 
enlisted his company of infantry. 

Capt. J. C. Wilson of Company ^^F" entered the 
Fifth Infantry as corporal in Company ^'B." At the 
end of the first year he was elected lieutenant, was 
desperately wounded at Perryville and captured. 
When exchanged he found the consolidation of the 
Fourth and Fifth had left him a supernumerary. Se- 
curing authority to organize a cavalry company, he 
recruited it in the northeastern quarter of the county, 



In Confederate States Army. 



259 



almost up to the frowning guns of Fort Heiman. It 
became Company ''F'- of the Twentieth Cavalry. 

Company ''K" of this regiment was enlisted by 
Capt. H. F. Bowman, formerly of Company ''B," 
Fifth Tennessee Infantry; but on his promotion to 
major, Lieut. Macon H. Freeman was promoted to the 
captaincy, and commanded it until near the close of 
the war with signal ability and bravery. 

The Twentieth Regiment was placed in Bell's Brig- 
ade with the Second (Colonel Barteau), Sixteenth 
(Colonel Wilson), and the Nineteenth (ColQuel New- 
som), all new commands 
except the Second. These 
new soldiers, however, 
were doomed soon to have 
a smell of gunpowder, for 
Forrest enlisted soldiers to 
fight. A goodly number of 
them, be it said, had ''seen 
the elephant" at Shiloh, 
having served their first 
year in infantry. 

In February, 1863, Gen- 
eral Smith started from 
Memphis on his raid into 
the prairie country of Mis- 
sissippi, which culminated 
in his defeat at Okalona. 

General Forrest, in his preparation to meet it, fear- 
ing that Smith might cross the Tombigbee at Aber- 
deen, Miss., and advance on the east of that stream, 
detached Bell's brigade to pass the river at Columbus 




CAPT. M. H. FREEMAN. 



260 History of Henry County Commands 

to meet him if needed. Fiuding Smith was descend- 
ing on the west side of that stream, General Bell re- 
^rossed the river, and kept on the flank of the retreat- 
ing Federals whom Forrest had driven back the day 
before. On the morning of February 22, Colonel Bar- 
teau, commanding Bell's Brigade, approached Oka- 
lona from the east and found the Federals drawn up 
in line. Forrest coming up just then was received 
with cheers and lent confidence to the men, and while 
EusselFs, Wilson's and Newsom's regiments, all made 
up mainly of men now under fire for the first time, 
attacked in front (dismounted), while the Second 
Tennessee (mounted) attacked on the Federal right 
flank. McCullough's Brigade coming up just at this 
juncture, the enemy gave way and fled. The Twen- 
tieth took part in the continuous charge that extended 
far towards Memphis. 

March 15, 1863, another expedition into West Ten- 
nessee and Western Kentucky commenced. While 
other forces were sent to capture the forces at Union 
City, Buford's Division, to which Barteau's Brigade 
belonged, pressed on to Paducah, where they arrived 
on the 25th. While Thompson's Brigade threatened 
the front Russell's Regiment occupied a row of build- 
ings near the river used to store military supplies, 
and with long range rifles poured such accurate and 
continuous fire into the port holes of two gunboats 
as to drive them under shelter of the fort. Securing 
supplies of horses, equipment and stores, the Confed- 
erate command withdrew after nightfall. 

Returning to Jackson, Tenn., General Forrest de- 
cided on the capture of the post at Fort Pillow, and 



In Confederate States Army. 



261 



on April 11 began his march to that yjlace. Pressing 
up under cover of timber and ravines to within sixty 
yards (in some places) of the Federal works, a de- 
mand for a surrender was made but refused by the 
Federal commander. When ordered to attack the 
dashing Confederates dismounted, rushed over the 
ditches and breastworks, and poured a hot fire into 
the Federals as they fled out of .the fort and hurried 
down the bluff towards the river. 

The fight was soon over, but not until fourteen val- 
uable officers and men were killed and eighty-six 
wounded. 

Capt. J. C. Wilson of the Twentieth Tennessee fell 
near the works while charging at the head of his com- 
pany. He was carried by his men on stretchers eigh- 
teen miles to Dr. Brodie's, where he died after linger- 
ing several days. 

Returning to Jackson 
and gathering recruits, 
supplies and horses, For- 
rest's command, on the 
10th, started back to Mis- 
sissippi, Bell's Brigade con- 
veying the prisoners and 
artillery via LaGrange. 

Everything being secur- 
ed. Bell's and Xeely's brig- 
ades returned to West Ten- 
nessee to visit their homes 
and secure recruits. Bell's 
Brigade was thus increased 
in numbers from 1,001 to 




CAPT. J. C. WILSON. 



262 History of Henry County Commands 

1,717 fighting men; and on the 22d Buford withdrew 
all the forces again to Tupelo, Miss. 

Just before the battle of Brice's Cross Roads Rus- 
sell's Regiment was stationed at Corinth, but moved 
southward to meet the advancing enemy. When the 
line of battle was formed the regiment occupied the 
left center. Two strong lines of Federals attacked 
them vigorously, the front line coming within thirty 
paces of the Confederates, who then drew their re- 
volvers and drove them back with great slaughter. 

About 2 p. m., after some destructive artillery fir- 
ing, the whole line advanced and carried the strong 
Federal position, driving them back upon the muddy 
crossing of Tishimingo Creek, and the retreat became 
a rout, RusselPs Regiment being prominent in the 
rapid pursuit which lasted for two days, or until the 
command, both men and horses, were well nigh worn 
down. 

When the Federals under General Smith essayed 
for the third time to penetrate the rich country con- 
tiguous to the M. & O. railroad, it was Bell's Brigade 
that gave them the first real check, about four miles 
west of Tupelo, and brought on the battle of Harris- 
burg. In the general engagement on July 14th, it oc- 
cupied the centre just to the right of the Tupelo road. 
When Gen. S. D. Lee ordered the line to advance and 
attack the enemy, now pretty well fortified, they 
answered with a yell and charged in the face of a hot 
arid destructive fire which they were not able to en- 
dure, and soon retired. All the colonels of Bell's 
Brigade were wounded during this engagement. 

An expected attack was awaited until night and 



In Confederate States Army. 263 

then the whole force was withdrawn during the dark- 
ness and a new position taken up about three miles 
south of Tupelo. 

The Federal commander, instead of attacking next 
morning, began to retire, and the Confederates pur- 
sued promptly. At Town Creek, four miles beyond 
Tupelo, the enemy prepared an ambuscade and Bell's 
Brigade was driven back a short distance, but rally- 
ing advanced again with Crossland's Kentucky Brig- 
ade. In spite of fierce attacks upon their position the 
Federals maintained it until nightfall, and then con- 
tinued the retreat. The Confederates and their horses 
were so worn down by hard marching and fighting 
that the pursuit was not pushed with the usual, vigor, 
though Chalmers followed for some distance. 

A few days later ( commencing August 18tli ) , Gen- 
eral Forrest made a dash into Memphis in the hope 
of frightening the heavy Federal forces at Abbeville 
to fall back. The Twentieth Tennessee was held in 
reserve in the suburbs of Memphis and did not act- 
ively take part in the fighting. 

Russell's Regiment formed part of the command 
led by Forrest into North Alabama and Middle Ten- 
nessee in September, 1864, and shared fully in the 
fighting at Athens, Sulphur Trestle, Pulaski, and 
other places on the N. & D. railroad, losing some of 
its best men killed and wounded, Company ^^E" es- 
pecially suffering heavily. Returning to West Ten- 
nessee the expedition to Fort Heiman, Paris Landing 
and Johnsonvile was undertaken, the Twentieth Ten- 
nessee supporting the artillery which destroyed so 
many vessels and such vast amounts of army stores. 



264 History of Henry County Commands 

Marching soutliward, Russell's Regiment and some 
others were furloughed home to secure ^'esh horses 
and clothing. 

During Hood's campaign to Nashville the Twenti- 
eth Cavalry shared fully in all the dangers and suffer- 
ing of this ill-starred campaign, and especially as 
part of the rear guard on the retreat to Corinth. 

During the two and a half months from the first 
of January to the middle of March, the Twentieth 
Regiment prepared for the final struggle, and then 
set out to Selma to help in the fruitless attempt to 
check the raid of General Wilson through the heart 
of the Confederacy. But the destruction by the 
enemy of the bridges across the Cahaba River effect- 
ually prevented their reaching Selma, and nothing 
was left to be done but to submit to the inevitable, 
and to lay down their arms, which they did at Gaines- 
ville, Ala., with the balance of Forrest's renowned 
cavalry. 

It needs to be said that Quartermaster S. J. Ray, 
Surgeon T. C. McNeill, Lieuts. N. W. McNeill. Wm. 
H. Courts and M. B. Dinwiddie, all of Company "B,'" 
were Henry County men, besides other non-commis- 
sioned officers and privates ( whose names I have been 
unable to obtain ) , served in the Twentieth Tennessee 
Cavalry. So that it may be safely said that about 
one-fourth of its members were citizens of Henry 
County. 



In Confederate States Army. 265 



Roll of Company ^'E/' Twentieth Regiment, Ten- 
nessee Cavalry. 

Capt. W. D. Hallum; wounded at Brice's Cross 
Roads and Athens, Ala; served through the war. 

First Lieut. T. A. Carter ; wounded at Brice's Cross 
Roads. 

Second Lieut. A. J. Pettyjohn ; served about a year. 

Third Lieut. A. B. Goodin ; served through the war. 

First Sergt. W. W. McCaskill ; served one and one- 
half years. 

Second Sergt. J. J. Bishop ; served a year or more. 

Third Sergt. Richard Pinson; wounded at Brice's 
Cross Roads; died of smallpox. 

Fourth Sergt. J. J. Bowden; wounded at Okalona. 

Fifth Sergt. T. B. Parrish ; served through the war. 

First Corp. Reuben Bonier ; served through the war. 

Second Corp. T. J. Smith ; served a year or more. 

Third Corp. J. W. Palmer; wounded at Brice's 
Cross Roads. 

Fourth Corp. I. E. Workman ; served two years. 

I. N. Akers ; served about two years. 

Wm. Anderson. 

D. Baker; served about two years. 

G. G. Baker; served through the war. 

W. H. Barfield; served two years. 

T. W. Barham ; killed at Pulaski, Tenn. 

W. H. Barham ; died during the war. 

G. S. Biles ; served through the war. 

J. M. Bird; served through the war. 



266 . History of Henry County Commands 

AV. J. Bird; captured in Tennessee; served through 
the war. 

Wm. S. Bomer; served through the war. 

E. Bowden; served through the war. 

W. F. Bowden; served through the war. 

Eli S. Browu. 

J. A. Browning. 

R. Busbee. 

J. F. Bushart ; served two years or more. 

T. Caples. 

Silas Cate ; served through the war. 

Wm. Cate. 

F. Clendenin. 
Wm. R. Clements. 
E. Cobb. 

E. Comer. 
P. Comer. 
Wm. Cooper. 
Thomas Copeland. 

Isaac Crews; killed in Georgia. 

G. Dolen. 

F. E. Dunlap. 
S. H. Dunlap. 
F. S. Fields 
W.. H. Fields. 
Wm. Foust. 
Lewis W. French. 
J. R. Galbraitli. 
Arch Gibson. 

B. Gooch. 
J. A. Goodin. 
W. B. Greer. 



In Confederate States Aemy. 267 

Wm. Hagler; wounded; served through the war. 
R. Hancock. 

Alex Harmon ; served through the war. 
J. P. Hastings. 
P. R. Hays. 
J. Hicks. 
W. R. Hicks. 
J. M. Hitchcock. 
/ R. H. Jones ; killed June 10, 1864. 

A. J. Hughey ; captured and died in prison. 
R. H. Jones; killed at Brice's Cross Roads. 

C. T. Kelly ; died June 3, 1864, in Mississippi. 
Perry Kemp. 

Jackson King; killed in Georgia. 

D. M. Lankford; wounded. 
John Ligon. 

A. Linton. 

A. J. Loony; served through the war. 

E. T. Loony; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

J. D. Lowry; wounded at Pulaski; served through 
the war ; present at surrender. 

J. C. Lowry; captured in Obion County; died in 
prison. 

T. W. Lowry. 

J. G. Malone. 

G. W. Malone. 

W. H. H. Massey. 

Porter McGlafflin. 

J. W. McCord ; killed at Fayette Station, Tenn. 

J. Medlin. 

A. M. Muzzell ; served through the war. 



268 History of Henry County Commands 

Daniel Muzzell; wouDded at Brice's Cross Roads, 
and died October 6, 1864. 
J. M. Myers. 
Pat Nance. 
Ed Palmer. 
A. W. Penick. 
T. M. Pinson. 
T. J. Pinson. 
Wm. Pride. 

A. R. Rasbury. 
Wm. M. Rasbury. 
Thomas Reeves. 
J. Rhodes. 

J. Rice. 
James Roe. 

J. A. Smith; wounded at Memphis and at Oxford, 
Miss. 

W. M. Stalls. 
R. P. Stanfield. 
William Waddy. 
Willis Waddy. 
R. A. Walters. 
Sam Walters. 
L. Mart Walton. 

B. Webb. 
James Webb. 
Wm. Webb. 
Isaac Wetherby. 

' W. R. Wetherby. 
A. Wiley; served through the war. 
Else Workman; (after exchange) served through 
the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 269 

George Yarbro. 

James Young. 

Captain Hallum says there were one hundred and 
forty men enlisted in his company. Only the above 
names can be secured. 



Roll of Company ^^F/' Twentieth Regiment Ten- 
nessee Cavalry. 

Capt. J. Cardwell Wilson ; killed at Fort Pillow. 

First Lieut. T. Jeff Kendall; served through the 
war. 

Second Lieut. G. C. Lemonds. 

Third Lieut. A. J. Morton. 

Thomas Albritton. 

H. C. Bailey. 

T. J. Bennett; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

D. S. Buckman. 

D. O. Calloway; served through the war; present 
at surrender. 

William F. Chilcutt. 

Babe Cooper. 

J. H. Courts ; wounded at Brice's Cross Roads, los- 
ing an arm; discharged. 

Frank M. Crouch. 

David C. Crouch; wounded at Harrisburg. 



270 History of Henry County Commands 

— . — . Crutchfield ; served through the war ; present 
at surrender. 

R. E Duke. 

Gus Edwards. 

Tom J. Edwards. 

Henry E. Frazier; served through the war. 

Joe Frazier. 

Robert Freeland. 

Samuel French ; killed at Harrisburg. 

Carman Gardner. 

J. D. Gardner. 

Cage Guill. 

James Grubbs; killed at Athens, Ala. 

John Grubbs. 

Dock Hastings ; served through the war ; present at 
surrender. 

Elijah Hays. 

J. W. Henderson; died April 20, 1863. 

A. J. Ingram. 

Tobe Jackson. 

Jesse King ; served through the war ; present at sur- 
render. 

Rube Lee; wounded at Guntown, Miss.; served 
through the war; present at surrender. 

Polk Lee. 

Clark Martin. 

James Martin. 

I. N. Moody; served througli tln^ war; present at 
surrender. 

L. P. Moody; served tlirougli the war; present at 
, surrender. 



In Confederate States Army. - 271 

John Neese; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

— . — . Osborne ; wounded. 

J. B. Owens ; wounded near Jackson, Tenn. ; served 
through the war; present at surrender. 

Joshua Parks; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

Levi Pfleuger. 

Wm. Pfleuger; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

A. J. Powers; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

William Ralls; w^ounded. 

E. O. Raudle. 

Smith Randle. 

J. C. Rogers; jierhaps died. 

Wm. Shankle; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

George Sheridan. 

Dock Sparks; died in Mississippi. 

Jno. P. Sroat. 

J. H. Thompson; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
through the w^ar; present at surrender. 

Noah Thompson; killed at Athens, Ala. 

Clark Thrognorton. 

Ballus H. Upchurch; died May 10, 1864. 

Peter Venable. 

Gray Walker; discharged. 

Thomas Warbritton ; killed at Harrisburg. 

James Williams; killed at Athens, Ala. 

John Williams; killed at Athens, Ala. 



272 History of Henry County Commands 

Hardin Wilson ; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

Samuel Wilson. 

Wni. N. Wilson ; serA^ed through the war ; present at 
surrender. 

Duncan AVimberly; served through the war; pres- 
ent at surrender. 

Franklin Wimberly. 

Jackson Wimberly; served through the war; pres- 
ent at surrender. 

Wm. Wynns; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 



Roll of Company ^^K/' Twentieth Regiment, Ten- 
NF^SEE Cavalry. 

Capt. Henry T. Bowman; elected major of regi- 
ment. 

First Lieut. Macon H. Freeman; promoted to cap- 
tain; resigned near the close of the war. 

Second Lieut. A. J. Killebrew; wounded at Esti- 
nola. 

Third Lieut. J. G. Bunton; killed at Estinola. 

First Sergt. I. E. S. Alexander; served through the 
war. 

'Second Sergt. C.S.Moore; wounded at Brice's Cross 
Roads. 

Third Sergt. J. W. Moore. 



In Confederate States Army. 27B 

Fourth Sergt. F. E. Garrett; served through the 
war. 

Fifth Sergt. Wash P. Bumpass ; served through the 
war. 

First Corp. J. W. Fields; died at Okalona, Miss., 
October, 1864. 

Second Corp. J. E. Haskins; died at Lauderdale 
Springs, September, 1864. 

M. Bruce Alexander. 

Charley Beard; killed at Harrisburg. 

John K. Beard ; killed at Fort Pillow. 

Jacob A. Bonier; promoted to second lieutenant, 
and in September, 1865, to first lieutenant; served 
through the war ; present at surrender. 

S. C. Bowman. 

W. K. Bowman ; died at hospital, July, 1864. 

O. Buckley. 

D. F. Bullock ; served through the war. 

D. C. Cabe ; served through the war. 

Achilles Y. Clark ; promoted to first sergeant ; elect- 
ed first lieutenant and promoted to captain, February, 
1865 ; served through the war. 

C. Colly; served through the war. 

Cornelius Coley; wounded at Brice's Cross Roads 
and died. 

T. W. Coley (veteran of Mexican War) ; served 
three and one-half years. 

J. B. Ezell ; served three and one-half years. 

T. J. Fields; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
through the war. 

S. H. Fizer; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
through the war; present at surrender. 
18 



274 History of Henry County Commands 

Wm. Fizer; wounded; served through the war; 
present at surrender. 

N. J. Garrett; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

T. P. Garrett; served through the war; present at 
surrender. 

George Gilmore; served until September, 1864. 

W. W. Givens ; served until October, 1864. 

H. T. Hodges. 

J. E. Hoofman; served through the war. 

Brodie T. Howard; served through the war. 

T. B. Howard; served until December, 1864. 

G. W. Hunt; served until December, 1864. 

Spence P. Hunt; served through the war; present 
at surrender. 

W. S. Hunt; killed in Selma campaign. 

Calvin Kennedy; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
through the war. 

A. J. Killebrew ; served through the war. 

J. K. Killebrew; wounded at Harrisburg and died 
July 27, 1864. 

J. M. Killebrew; served through the war. 

K. H. Kirk. 

A. Lafon; served through the war. 

E. Martin; served through the war. 

Geo. D. MaA^o; served until October, 1864. 

W. C. Mayo; died at hospital in Alabama, Septem- 
ber, 1864. 

A. J. McWhirter; served until September, 1864. 

J. W. Midjett; wounded at Athens and died. 

J. H. Mizell ; served until January, 1865. 

Newton Moore; served through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 275 

Simpson Moore; wounded at Harrisburg. 

W. W. Olive ; served through the war. 

0. H. Owens ; served until December, 1864. 

E. H. Palmer ; promoted to first sergeant ; wounded 
at Harrisburg and died in hospital. 

A. J. Pentecost; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
through the war. 

John D. Poyner; served through the war; present 
at surrender. 

W. H. Reynolds; served through the war 

T. G. Riddle; killed at Harrisburg. 

A. J. Ridgway; served until August, 1864. 
J. A. Ridgway; served through the war. 

W. A. Ridgway; promoted to third lieutenant 
L. Roberts ; served through the war. 
G. M. D. Ross; served through the war. 
John Sexton; wounded at Harrisburg; served 
through the war. 
George Sheridan. 

J. M. Sheridan; served through the war. 
Wm. Stokes; served through the war. 
W. Logan Tharpe; served through the war. 

B. L. Thompson; killed accidentally at Tibbee,- 
Miss., March e3,.1864. 

Samuel A. Webb ; wounded at Brice's Cross Roads ; 
served through the war; present at surrender. 

W. E. Wiggins; served through the war; present 
at surrender. 

Tolbert F. Williams; wounded at Harrisburg; 
served through the war. 

J. B. Young. 



276 History of Henry County Commands 



Capt. N. W. McNeill's Cavalry Company. 

Capt. N. W. :McXeill enlisted a small company of 
cavalry in the summer of 18G3, and after serving about 
a year it was consolidated with W. H. Hawkins' Com- 
pany ^'B" of the Twentieth Tennessee Cavalry, and 
Captain McNeill was assigned as first lieutenant, W. 
H. Courts was second lieutenant and M. B. Dinwid- 
die third lieutenant. I give the names of all the Henry 
County men whom Captain McNeill could remember : 

Lieut. N. W. McNeill ; promoted to captain ; served 
through the war. 

Lee Baker ; served through the war. 

Abb Beck ; killed at Ft. Pillow. 

Ed Bohannon ; served through the war. 

Fauney Bradley; killed at Estanola. 

Eeuben Burdett; served through the war. 

Keuben Burrow; killed at Ft. Pillow. 

Thomas Cason ; killed at Harrisburg. 

Richard Crawford; died near Tupelo, Miss. 

Mastin D. Crawford; served through the war. 

Carroll Jones; served through the war. 

Mace H. Lankford ; wounded at Harrisburg. 

James Ward; served through the TVar. 

Thomas Wood ; served through the war. 

Robert White; wounded at Athens, Ala., and died. 

.Vlex Wright ; served through the war. 

George Wright; served through the war. 

Polk Wright; served through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 277 

Gen. H. B. Lyon's Escort. 

Capt. D. F. Alexander, tired of waiting to be ex- 
changed after his capture at Ft. Donelson, obtained 
a parole by paying a lawyer |100.00 to secure it for 
him, and made his way home. As soon as able to ride 
he was again in the saddle, and reporting to Gen- 
eral Forrest while on his Tennessee River raid in the 
fall of 1864, was sent by him with a picked company 
to cross the Tennessee River and keep the telegraph 
wires cut between John son ville and Nashville, to pre- 
vent Federal reinforcements being sent to Johnson- 
ville, while General Forrest attacked the gunboats, 
transports and depot of supplies at that point. This 
perilous mission he skillfully accomplished with sig- 
nal ability and complete success. 

General Forrest then gave him authority to enlist 
a new cavalry company ( his old company having been 
broken up and the men distributed in other compa- 
nies while he was absent in prison). He found' no 
trouble in gathering about him a band of bold spirits, 
and the new company was at once selected by Gen. 
H. B. Lyon as his escort, and accompanied him on 
his daring raid in the winter of 1864-5, in which he 
made almost a complete circuit, starting from West 
Tennessee, crossing the Tennessee and Cumberland 
Rivers, and thence through Southern Kentucky and 
Middle Tennessee to North Alabama and destroying 
a great deal of Government property. They helped 
to fight Wilson on his advance to Selma, Ala., and 
surrendered, with other cavalry commands, at Colum- 
bus, Miss. 



278 History of Henry County Commands 

The following are the names of some of the men 
who served under Captain Alexander, part of them 
in the Tenth Tennessee Cavalry and part in Lyons' 
Escort. The lapse of forty years has so mixed the 
members of the two companies in Captain Alexan- 
der's memory that he is unable to separate them : 

Capt. D. F. Alexander. 

Lieut. R. P. Cole. 

Lieut. — . — . Oliver. 

Sergt. — . — . Melton. 

D. D. Brisendine. 

Hud A. Boden. 

LaFayette Cherry. 

Will Cooney. 

Jack Daniel. 

A. V. Duncan. 

John Dunlap. 

W. Pink Erwin. 

S. Harmon. 

Samuel McClish. 

— . — . Miller; killed. 

Bart Owensby. 

Dock Owensby. 

Dillard Poyner. 

Howard Poyner. 

Hugh Renfroe. 

George Renfroe. 

Henry Ridley. 

Henry M. Rose. 

John Rose. 

John Vandyck. 

Will Vandyck. 

James Walker. 



History of Henry County Commands 279 



Capt. Robert Ayres^ Cavalry Company. 

During the summer and fall of 1861, Capt. Robert 
Ayres of Benton recruited a company of cavalry, most 
of whom were from that county, though there were 
some twenty-five or thirty from Henry. This company 
was not attached to any battalion or regiment at first. 
It was stationed at Danville, on the Tennessee River, 
to guard the railroad bridge there during the winter 
o,f 1861-2. Soon after the fall of Ft. Henry the Fed- 
eral gunboats ascended the river to Danville and 
shelled the camp of Ayres' Company, drove them off 
and burned the bridge. 

The company was stampeded and scattered for a 
while, but later rallied and joined the Confederate 
forces in North Alabama, and did valiant service 
under General Roddy on post, provost and guard duty, 
as well as field service. 

During the latter part of the war the company was 
attached to Nixon's Regiment and were surrendered 
near Greensboro, Ala., in May, 1865. 

The following Henry County men are all whose 
names could be secured at this late day : 

Robert F. Bomer; served through the war. 

William C. Bomer ; served through the war. 

A. J. Bradshaw. 

Peter Buchanan ; served through the war. 

James Clendenin ; served through the war. 

Anderson French; served through the war. 

Thomas French; served through the war. 

— . — . Guinn ; served through the war. 



280 History of Henry County Commands 

James Anderson Haymes; served through the war. 

Cal Lemonds. 

Alex McCullough; served through the war. 

R. Wes Redmond; served through the war. 

Thomas H. Robbins ; served through the war. 

^'Horse'^ Russell; served through the war. 

O. W. Thomas. 

Wes Sexton; served through the war. 

Elias Wall ; served through the war. 

W. J. Wiseman. 

William Young ; served through the war. 



Company ^'C," P'ourth Confederate Regiment. 

When the fortifications at Fort Henry were com 
menced, troops from various points were assembled 
there, and several regiments were organized. One of 
the companies entering into the organization of the 
Fourth Confederate Regiment was commanded by 
Capt. Joe Alexander of Weakley County and a squad 
of men from the Fifteenth and Twentieth Districts of 
Henry County crossed the Tennessee River and en- 
listed in this company, afterward commanded by Capt. 
AVallace of Weakley County. This company was cap- 
tured at Ft. Donaldson, and after being exchanged, 
fought at various places in Mississippi. 

I have no detailed account of the fighting done by 
this contingent of Henry's soldiery, but doubt not it 



In Confederate States Army. 281 

was on a par with that of other sons of our grand old 
county. I append the names of such of them as have 
been transmitted to me by Comrade R. S. Monroe: 

John Akers. 

Thomas P. Monroe. 

Robert S. Monroe. 

Isaac N. Moody. 

Richard Phillips. 

Andrew J. Powers. 

Andrew Wei don. 

Benjamin Wilson. 

Peter Wilson. 

Calvin Knight. 



Col. W. W. Faulkner's Twelfth Kentucky Cav- 
alry. 

Sergt. D. N. Wright of Company ^^D" of this regi- 
mentj in writing a sketch of it for Dr. J. Berrian 
Lindsley's Annals of Tennessee, says : "Possibly Ken- 
tuckians were in the majority when the original or- 
ganization took place; however, the majority was 
small." And he says further that there were Henry 
County men in Companies "E," "F" and "G." This 
certainly entitles it to a notice in this history. 

The companies composing it were recruited along 
the Kentucky and Tennessee line during the summer 
of 1863, and the organization of the regiment was 
completed in the western part of Madison County, 



282 History of Henry County Commands 

Tennessee, about the 20th of September, 1863. A bat- 
talion of the regiment under Lieut..-Col. W. D. Lan- 
nom assisted materially in safely escorting the un- 
armed forces gathered from West Tennessee, in the 
march from Jackson, Tenn., to North Mississippi. In 
the organization of Forrest's Cavalry Department the 
regiment was assigned to McCullough's Brigade. 
When Buford's Division - was organized, March 1, 
1864, Faulkner's Regiment was placed in the Ken- 
tucky Brigade, composed of the Third, Seventh and 
Eighth Kentucky Mounted Infantry, with Col. A. P. 
Thompson in command as senior colonel. When Col- 
onel Thompson was killed in the attack on Paducah 
Colonel (afterwards Brigadier-General) H. B. Lyon 
succeeded to the command, and no brigade in any 
army ever made a better record, and the Twelfth Ken- 
tucky was not a whit behind the other regiments in 
making and maintaining this splendid reputation. 

Henry County men in Twelfth Kentucky Cavalry: 

Capt. Robert P. Cole. 

Lieut. John Yow ; killed at Paris, Tenn. 

J. W. Cole. 

A. H. Foster ; in Company "F ;" served through the 
war. 

Gus Henry; in Company "E." 

S. H. Holcolm; in Company "E." 

W. H. Mathis; in Company "G." 

W. S. McCall. 

F. Marion McClure; in Company "G.'' 

John Nance; wounded at Pulaski, Tenn. 

Wliliam Ray. 

R. T. Roberts. 



In Confederate States Army. 283 

. — . Sexton ; iu Company "G." 

G. Wash Sims. 
Thomas Stewart. 



Partial Roll of Henry County Soldiers in Com- 
pany ^'D" OF Col. John F. NE\ysoM'S Nine- 
teenth Tennessee Cavalry. 

Capt. Thomas H. Tayloe; wounded at Harrisburg. 

First Lieut. M. B. Owensby. 

Second Lieut. D. J. Bowden. 

John Barnes. 

Franl?: Clore. 

William Cowan. 

James Dumas. 

James Grooms. 

John Jackson. 

Perry Jackson. 



284 History of Heney County Commands 



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^jLa,^^r /j f Co^^M^ 



COL. JAMES D. PORTER. 



ROLL OF 
Henry County Soldiers 

IN MISCELLANEOUS COMMANDS. 



I have deemed it best in compiling this list to in- 
clude not only those who were citizens of the county 
at the time of their enlistment, but also those who 
have since resided in tlie county so long as to become 
thoroughly identified with it. Some who are entitled 
to be thus included will likely be omitted because of 
my failure to secure their names. 

Col. James D. Porter, Jr. ; acting adjutant-general 
on B. F. Cheatham's staff during the entire war, do- 
ing efficient and valuable service, showing peculiar 
capability and exhibiting exceptional bravery on 
many battlefields. 

Col. James M. Ray ; of Sixtieth North Carolina In- 
fantry. 

Col. James F. Caldwell ; served through the war in 
Texas as commissary of General Polignac's Brigade; 
died in July, 1865, of disease contracted in the ser- 
vice. 

Lieut.-Col. H. C. McNeill; of Thirty-Third Tennes- 
see Infantry; killed in Georgia campaign in 1864. 

285 



286 History of Henry County Commands 

Maj. Thomas K. Porter; as captain of Porter's Bat- 
tery, and later in command of a battalion of artillery ; 
wounded at Ft. Donaldson and Hoover's Gap. 

Capt. William K. Dunlap; in artillery; died in 
1861 of typhoid fever ; a promising officer. 

Capt. Will W. Wilkins ; on General Hardee's staff. 

Capt. John T. Postlethwaite ; Company ^'D," First 
Tennessee Heavy Artillery. 

Lieut. George McNeill; in Third Company, Wash- 
ington Artillery ; wounded at Antietam. 

Lieut. Eugene Harris ; on General Cheatham's staff. 

Lieut. J. X. M. Lynch; in Company ^'C," Thirty- 
Third Tennessee Infantry. 

Lieut. Alonzo Pillow; in Hume's Heavy Artillery; 
captured at Island 10 ; served through the war. 

Lieut. John P. Matthewson; Company "H," Third 
Kentucky Mounted Infantry ; served through the war. 

Lieut. B. Gan Curd ; in Twelfth Tennessee Infantry 
(wounded perhaps) ; served through the war. 

Lieut. John H. Curd; in First Arkansas Infantry; 
killed at Murfreesboro. 

Lieut. John A. Bowman ; in an Arkansas regiment. 

First Lieut. James T. Dunlap, Jr.; in Tenth Ten- 
nessee Infantry; wounded and captured at Ft. Don- 
elson; after exchange as aide on staff of Gen. Ben 
H. Hill. 

First Lieut. Ben A. Jobe; enlisted in the Eigh- 
teenth Tennessee Infantry; captured at Ft. Donel- 
son ; escaped at St. Louis ; served then in Fourth Ten- 
nessee Cavalry; selected as a member of Wharton's 
Scouts and promoted to lieutenant; captured in 
Arkansas ; served through the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 287 

First Lieut. N. G. Haynes; Company ''I/' Ninth 
Texas Cavalry. 

Second Lieut. W. P. Smallwood; M. D. in Georgia 
State Scouts; promoted to captain of Company ''E," 
Twelfth Georgia Infantry. 

Lieut. T. K. Porter Wright; in Company "K/' Sev- 
enth Arkansas Infantry; wounded at Shiloh, Chicka- 
mauga and Ringgold Gap; captured at Franklin; 
served through the war. 

Sergt. John H. Dunlap; in Morton's Battery; 
wounded at Harrisburg; served through the war. 

Sergt. John R. Harding; in Company ''H," Third 
Kentucky Mounted Infantry; as courier brought out 
the last dispatches from Vicksburg ; wounded at Shi- 
loh and Franklin ; served through the war. 

First Sergt. James F. Ponder; Company '^B/' Six- 
teenth Aabama Infantry; wounded at Chickamauga; 
served through the war. 

M. T. Barfield; in Company -C/' Fifty-Seventh 
North Carolina Infantry; wounded at Kingston, 
Tenn. 

William Bonier; in some command; died at Jack- 
son, Tenn., 1863. 

John W. Borum; in Thirty-Eighth Tennessee In- 
fantry. 

Ransom T. Borum ; in Thirty-Eighth Tennessee In- 
fantry. 

William F. Bowden; in some command. 

Frank A. Brooks; in Thirty-Third Tennessee In- 
fantry. 

W. A. Bryan ; in some North Carolina regiment. 

Robert D. Caldwell, Jr.; in Miller's Mississippi 



288 History of Henry County Commands 

Cavalry Battalion; discharged, ill health; died at 
home, January 11, 1865. 

John A. Coats; in some Texas regiment. 

J. T. Coulter; Company ''A," Forty-Ninth Tennes- 
see Infantry; captured at Ft. Donelson and at At- 
lanta, July 28, 1864 ; escaped near Griffin, Ga. ; served 
through the war. 

R. R. Crawford; died during the war, while serving 
in some unknown command. 

William Crawford ; in Company ^^C," Seventh Ken- 
tucky Mounted Infantry; wounded at Paducah; 
served tlirough the war. 

William M. Crawford; in Thirty-First Infantry; 
captured at Nashville ; served through the war. 

Richard D. Curd; in Twelfth Tennessee Infantry; 
promoted to lieutenant at final consolidation; served 
through the war. 

Thomas Davison; in Forty-Sixth Tennessee Infan- 
try (probably). 

Charles F. Doty; in some Arkansas command. 

W. A. Douglass ; in First Confederate Cavalry. 

Sylvester G. Duke; in Third Kentucky Mounted 
Infantry. 

A. H. Duncan ; in Seventh Kentucky Mounted In- 
fantry. 

A. V. Duncan; in Twentieth Tennessee Infantry. 

E. H. Duncan ; in Twentieth Tennessee Infantry. 

A. B. Emerson ; in Forty-Eighth Tennessee Infan- 
try; captured at Ft. Donelson. 

N. C. Hill; in Eighth South Carolina Infantry; 
wounded at Knoxville (losing an eye). 



In Confederate States Army. 289 

J. H. Hooper; in Company ^^A," Thirteenth North 
Carolina Infantry ; served through the war. 

E. B. Isbell; in Thirty-Seventh Georgia Infantry; 
wounded and captured at Murf reesboro ; wounded 
and captured at Chickamauga ; served through the 
war. 

D. C. Kent; in Company '%" Thirty-Eighth Ten- 
nessee Infantry; one year in Fourth Alabama Cav- 
alry; wounded at Brice's X Roads; served til] the 
surrender. 

R. G. Kirby ; in Nineteenth or Twentieth Tennessee 
Cavalry; served till close of the war. 

Ephraim Lasater, drowned in Tennessee River on 
his way to join some command, January, 1863. 

Harrison Lasater; in some cavalry command; 
served through the war. 

John Lasater ; in some cavalry command. 

Rufus Lasater; in some cavalry command; died in 
the service. 

N. J. Manly; in Company "G," One Hundred and 
Fifty-Fourth Senior Tennessee Infantry. 

N. H. McRae ; served in some command. 

Summerfleld Melton; in some Kentucky command. 

R. H. Mills; in Osceola L. Gordon's Louisiana 
Scouts. 

Bailey Moore; in Forty-Sixth Tennessee Infantry. 

G. B. C. Morris; in Company "A/' Fifteenth Ten- 
nessee Infantry; discharged for disability; re-en- 
listed. 

J. M. Morris; in Company "F/' Fifty-First North 
Oarolina Infantry; captured at Cold Harbor and es- 
caped ; served through the war. 

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290 History of Henry County Commands 

McKethan Morris; served through the war in same 
command. 

W. H. Olive; in Thirty-Third Tennessee Infantry; 
served through the war. 

P. P. Pullen; in Company "B," second Kentucky 
Cavalry. 

William D. Ramsay; in some command; 

P. D. T. Roberts; in Company "G," Sixteenth North 
Carolina Infantry; promoted to hospital steward; 
served through the war. 

Dr. Robert A. R. Simmons; in a Mississippi regi- 
ment; died during the war. 

— . — . Sutherlin; in some Tennessee regiment in 
Virginia and died there during the war. 

George D. Van Horn; in Company "E/' Seventh 
Arkansas Infantry ; wounded at Shiloh, Murfreesboro 
and Chickamauga; promoted to regimental quarter- 
master; served also in Swett's Battery. 

J. Lus Wasson; in Fourth Alabama Cavalry; 
wounded at Moulton, Ala. ; served through the war. 

W. Pink Wasson; in Fourth Alabama Cavalry; 
served through the war. 

James R. Wilkins; served in some command 
throughout the war. 

W. G. Wynns; in Forrest's Cavalry; wounded near 
Columbia, Tenn. ; served through the war. 

W. H. Wynns; first in Company ''G," Fifth Ten- 
nessee Infantry, then in Wheeler's Cavalry and with 
Morgan; wounded near Columbia; served till close 
of the war. 



In Confederate States Army. 291 



Woman^s Devotion to the Confederacy ♦ 

This history would be incomplete and manifestly 
partial did I fail to record the unflagging devotion 
with which the noble women of Henry County bore 
uncomplainingly their part in the great struggle. It 
is true as Holy Writ that '^As his part is that goeth 
down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarry eth 
by the stuff." (1st Sam. 30:24.) Many fair hands, 
all unused to hard labor or privation, toiled day and 
night that their fathers, brothers, husbands and sons 
might be supplied with clothing to warm them and 
with food to satisfy their hunger. 

When the Army of Tennessee reached Corinth, 
Miss., on our return from the Nashville campaign, we 
found thirty-five wagon loads of clothing for the West 
Tennesseeans in Hood's ragged and barefooted army, 
which had been secured by officers detailed to collect 
and transport it to that point. 

It is impossible to write of the individual sacriffces 
and labors of these faithful ones, and it can only be 
treated in a general manner. To endeavor to recount 
the deeds of our ladies worthy of remembrance would 
be to not only fill this book, but volumes without num- 
ber. Many of these deeds will never be known by the 
public till that great day, when the books kept in 
heaven shall be opened* and when ''honor shall be ren- 
dered to whom honor is due," and when "that which 
has been done in a corner shall be proclaimed from 
the housetops." Only a few days ago I heard a lady 



292 History of Henry County Commands 

relate casually how she had lain awake many a night 
weeping and wondering how she could provide food 
and clothing for her little ones while her husband was 
away in the army. 

The fathers, brothers, husbands and sons of such 
noble women could not be otherwise than good citi- 
zens, loyal patriots and brave soldiers. 



The Colored Cooks* 

There is another class that deserves '^honorable 
mention." The colored cooks in the army were an 
important adjunct. Many an officer was enabled to 
devote his hours off duty to studying "Hardee's Tac- 
tics," and was also enabled to keep his uniform in 
presentable condition, by the aid of a cook, and many 
a hot, tired and hungry soldier, returning to camp 
from drill, near noon, was regaled by the rich odors 
arising from the steaming camp kettle, which his cook, 
furnished him by a doting father, had filled with 
tempting viands. And many a sick or wounded Con- 
federate has been tenderly waited upon and cared for 
by the negro who played with him in boyhood and 
now tried to do for "young massa" what "ole missus" 
would have done, but was too far away to do. I ap- 
pend the names of such as I have been able to learn 
about : 

Joe Warren ; with Col. W. E. Travis ; was a faithful 



In Confederate States Army. 



29a 




THE COLORED COOKS. 



294 History of Henry County Commands 

servant till close of the war, and is yet true to the Con- 
federacy. 

Louis Fitzgerald ; with Col. Ed Fitzgerald. 

Wash Wilson ; with Lieut.-Col. J. D. Wilson ; when 
Colonel Wilson was wounded and captured he came 
home, bringing such articles as were in his care. 

Hiram Kendall; with Adjt. W. D. Kendall; his 
faithful services are gratefully remembered by Adju- 
tant Kendall. 

Bill Caldwell ; with Capt. A. W. Caldwell ; true till 
the Captain's death. 

Nat Harris; with Capt. H. W. Ballard and Lieut. 
W. E. Harris ; was a freedman, but served them well. 

Henry Love; with Captain D. F. iVlexander; when 
Captain Alexander was captured, brought his horses 
home safely, several hundred miles, through the 
enemy's country, and after securing clothes for him, 
carried both clothes and horses to him. 

Charles Street; with Lieut. G. C. Street. 

Dan Humphreys; with Lieut. Wes H. Humphreys; 
remained with him two years, till he was relieved by 
consolidation; then went to Sergt. Henry A. Hum- 
phreys in Company "G," Seventh Tennessee Cavalry, 
and was loyal to the end. 

Isaac Killebrew; with Lieut. J. J. Blake; standing 
by him faithfully till the war closed. 

Fielding Kennolds ; with E. H. and J. S. Rennolds ; 
sought them on the battlefield of Shiloh and brought a 
day's cooked rations for the whole mess, and carried 
Mr. Thomas Reynolds ( of the Memphis Appeal ) , who 
was taken violently sick, from the battlefield on his 
back. No truer soul ever served his young masters. 



In Confederate States Army. 295 

Allen Cox ; with Rev. Asa Cox ; was faithful unto 
death, and was carefully nursed and buried by his 
grateful master. 

Elias Daniel; with Sergt. J. E. Daniel; who fol- 
lowed the regiment at Shiloh till Sergeant Daniel was 
wounded, brought him off the field and nursed him 
tenderly. Was only seventeen years old. 

Henry Bomer ; with Lieut. J. A. Bomer. 

Jarrett Hallum ; with Capt. W. D. Hallum. 

Humph Clark ; with Hunt brothers, Company "H," 
Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 

Ben Vandyck; with Capt. J. T. Irion and Lieut. 
W. F. Harris. 

Thornt Aden ; with Capt. F. F. Aden and brothers, 
J. S. and John D. 

Jack Haynes ; with Lieuts. T. B. and James Haynes 
and H. C. Greer, Company "I," Fifth Tennessee. 

Cable McCampbell ; with Lieut. J. H. McCampbell. 

Joe Cooney ; with Capt. Charles D. Cooney. 

Jerry Atkins ; with W. E. T. Atkins. 

Henry Brannock; with Dr. J. M. Brannock. 

Lud Venable ; with Col. C. D. Venable. 

Henry Lamb; with Col. J. J. Lamb, and after his 
death with B. F. Taylor ; faithful to the end. 

Wilson Dunlap ; with John Dunlap, and then with 
Col. James D. Porter ; brought |2,500 from Arkansas 
to Gen. John H. Dunlap safely through the Federal 
lines. 

— . — . Yandyck ; with Vandyck brothers. Company 
"G," Seventh Tennessee Cavalry. 



296 History of Henry County Commands 



General Notes* 

One mess in Company ''D/' Fifth Tennessee Infan- 
try, was composed of Andrew, Matthew, John, Hil- 
liard. Van and William Thompson. The first three 
were brothers, the next two brothers and the last two 
also brothers and cousins of all the others. They were 
all good soldiers. Andrew and Matthew were killed 
at Perryville and the two others survived the war. 

Mrs. John Martin (formerly Mrs. Hope) was the 
mother of five sons, all of whom were good soldiers — 
Adam A., William L., Pleas M. and J. K. Hope and 
Batie H. Martin. The first three gave their lives to 
the Lost Cause, and no better soldiers carried a gun or 
wielded a sword. 

Mr. and Mrs. Green Berry Wilson furnished four 
true sons to the service of their country — Col. J. D., 
Capt. J. C. and Privates Kobert A. and Andrew M. 
Wilson. The two former were officers of distinction, 
and the second shed his life-blood at Ft. Pillow. 

Capt. W. T. Sims, Harvey, Marion, B. L. and Wash 
Sims were all sons of William Sims and wife. 

F. M. Crouch, Company 'T," Twenty-First Tennes- 
see Cavalry ; D. C. and T. J. of the Fifteenth Tennessee 
Infantry and W. R. of Company "A," Fifth Ten- 
nessee Infantry, were brothers and true soldiers. 

Brodie T., D. B., James G. and N. C. Howard were 
all sons of James H. Howard and wife, and all wore 
the gray with honor and distinction. 

Col. James D. Porter, Maj. Thomas K., Surgeon J. 



In Confederate States Army. 297 

H. and Cadet William H. Porter, all sons of Dr. 
Thomas K. Porter, composed another quartet of gal- 
lant soldiers. 

Mrs Adeline Irion Simmons gave five brave sons to 
the "Lost Cause" — Lieut. John L, Ep W. and W. H. 
of Company ''B," Fifth Tennessee Infantry; Dr. 
Thomas C. Simmons of the Seventh Tennessee Cav- 
alry, and Dr. Robert A. R., in a Mississippi regiment. 

Mrs. Rachel Milam was the mother of seven sons, 
six of whom were Confederate soldiers. Dr. T. R. 
was a lieutenant in Faulkner's Company of cavalry 
and battalion surgeon ; Riley served in the Forty-Sixth 
Tennessee Infantry, and the other four — Lieut. James 
B., Dr. Gwinn and Privates L. L. and Marcus D. 
Milam — in Company '^C," Fifth Tennessee Infantry. 

Rev. Ben Peeples and wife gave four noble sons to 
do battle for their country — Capt. Ben F., Company 
"G,'' Fifth Tennessee Infantry; Adjt. John R. of the 
Fifty- Second Tennessee Infantry, Private J. K. Polk 
of Company "G," Fifth Tennessee, and George T. of 
the Forty- Sixth Tennessee Infantry. No better sol- 
diers ever answered to roll-call. 

Col. R. D. Caldwell's four sons. Col. James F., Sur- 
geon Samuel H, Capt. A. .Wayne and Private Robert 
D., Jr., all enlisted in their country's service, and only 
Samuel H. was fortunate enough to survive tlie war. 

But it was reserved to Esq. George Bowman and 
wife of the Fourteenth District to make the largest 
contribution of sons: Maj. H. F. of the Twentieth 
Teiiiiessee Cavalry, Lieut. J. Lucius of Company ''M," 
Fifth Tennessee Infantry; Lieut. Frank of Company 
"B," Forty-Sixth Tennessee Infantry; Lieut. John H. 



298 History of Henry County Commands 

of an Arkansas regiment, and Privates Charles and 
Hamuel of Company ^'B," Fifth Tennessee Infantry — 
seven in all. 

Parents who gave all their sons to the defense of 
their homes, whether one or more, deserve great honor, 
but the above-named exceptional instances deserve 
especial mention. 

Four men served faithfully as letter carriers, taking 
great risks in running the blockade and keeping us in 
semi-continual communication with our loved ones. 
They were Esq. William Green, R. A. Burton, W. A. 
Thompson and Alex A. Farris, Esquire Green visit- 
ing the southern part of the county, Burton the east- 
ern and Thompson the western, while Farris took the 
greater risk in bringing letters out of Hickman, Ify., 
each of them, however, conveying any letters placed 
in their hands. 

Wlienever one of these "conductors on the under- 
ground railroad" appeared in camp there was great 
bustle and anxiety. Eyes sparkled, faces flushed, 
hearts fluttered, and from all parts of the camp men 
hurried to the postoffice. A soldier's blanket was 
j^pread on the ground and the mail carriers' saddle- 
liags, stuffed almost to bursting, was unbuckled and 
its contents dumped upon it, and then a half dozen 
of the best readers called out the names of the fortu- 
nate recipients, and these, tearing open the missives 
which father, mother, wife, sister, sweetheart or other 
loved one had penned, they eagerly scanned them, and 
soon the eyes "all unused to weeping" would glisten 
with teardrops that would, "all unbidden, flow," and 
coursing down the bronzed cheek, leave furrows in the 



■ In Confederate States Army. 299 

dust from the drill field or pine soot from the camp- 
fire. These men, especially Esquire Green, deserve 
much credit for "doing well what their hands found 
to do.'' He was over age, and so a non-conscript, and 
the others were disabled by wounds and detailed for 
this special service. 



300 History of Henry County Commands 



Conclusion* 

And now my work is ended, and I commit it with 
all its faults and short comings to the hands of the 
comrades of my early manhood and their relatives 
and friends, asking for it a charitable reception. It 
is the result of years of thought and labor in collec- 
tion and preparation. Its compilation has been per- 
formed under many difficulties, and sometimes in se- 
vere physical pafti and suffering, nearly a thousand 
miles from the homes of those whom it was necessary 
to consult to secure the data, which had to be com- 
pared and harmonized. It has often been difficult to 
decide in the abundance of material what should be 
included and what should be omitted. But it has been 
a labor of love, and often a name or incident has 
brought up the faces of old comrades as distinct as 
if seen on yesterday and wakened memories of their 
companionship. There is much compensation in the 
encouragement and commendation of those who 
shared with me the dangers and sufferings which it 
recounts and of their wives who remember the "days 
that tried men's sonis,'' and of their fair daughters, 
wliose bright eyes have filled with tears as they talked 
of those far awa}^ years. 

I thank God that I have been spared to finish it, 
and may He bless it for gopd and make it a "savor of 
life unto life" to all who read it. The book has been 
written with no desire to keep alive the animosities 
and bitterness engendered by the war, but in the be- 



In Confederate States Army. 301 

lief that all true soldiers on either side accord to their 
sometime enemies honest^^ of purpose. But the object 
has been solely to put on record the names and deeds 
of brave men, whose chivalric heroism is worthy of 
any age and any cause. 

Neither has the object been to foster the military 
spirit, for the author fully believes that 

^'Were half the power that fills the world with terror, 
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts 

Given to redeem the human mind from error 
There were no need of arsenals or forts. 

^^The warrior's name would be a name abhorred ! 

And every nation that should lift again 
Its hand against its brothers, on its forehead 

Would wear forevermore the curse of Cain. 

^^Down the dark future, through long generations, 
The echoing sounds grow fainter, then cease ; 

And, like a bell, with solemn, sweet vibrations, 

I hear once more the voice of Christ say : Teace.^ 

^Teace, and no longer from its brazen portals 
The black of war's great organ shakes the skies ! 

But beautiful as songs of the immortals. 
The holv melodies of love arise." 




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